Gary Price passed along This One on a nonprofit technology developer, has come up with a book-swapping website that is working to put books on line.
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Imagine spending hours tediously scanning hundreds of
pages and converting them to a special digital file every time you wanted
to read the latest bestseller. (Not to mention the cost of the scanner
itself.) Until now, many who are visually impaired have resorted to just
that. Less than 5 percent of books are available in Braille or audiotape
formats, by some estimates. But Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit
technology developer, has come up with Bookshare.org, a book-swapping
website that brings more than 10,000 books to people with visual disabilities.\”
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