I Wasn&#39;t sure if you were looking for the screen reader or the books. <div><br></div><div>For the screen reader Thunder is free (I&#39;ve heard mixed reviews about how well it works) </div><div><br></div><div>For books there are there are lots of places. Besides  e-book repositories like project gutenberg: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">http://www.gutenberg.org/</a>  there are also services such as Google books</div>
<div><br></div><div>And if you are looking for something to work with braille aware devices The American Action Fund has just made a number of free braille books availabale on line: <a href="http://www.actionfund.org/actionfund/default.asp">http://www.actionfund.org/actionfund/default.asp</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-Gregg</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:03 PM, LILITH Finkler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1202%26L%3DDISABILITY-RESEARCH%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1495302%26B%3D--bcaec5396dfec2c34e04ba1dfc14%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Colleagues. I recall hearing that digitized books were available to blind readers via <div>Shareware. Is anyone aware of this program and whether copyright laws permit Canadians</div><div>(as opposed to Americans) to access this service? </div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt">Also, are there text-to-speech readers that can read materials in PDF format? </span></div><div>Thanks, Lilith</div> 		 	   		  </div></div>
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