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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. We’ve already built a collection of titles in Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and last summer we released our first accessible collection in Arabic.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. Bookshare International Yup, Bookshare now has Arabic books. The news that this is the largest accessible Arabic book collection in the world is bittersweet. Not just a couple, but 100 of them. Is Spanish more your bag?

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