"Read 'Em and Speak!"
Books and Reading from
a Blind Perspective

Electronic text offers blind and visually impaired individuals an unprecedented level of intellectual independence and autonomy. Therefore, these pages are devoted to books, as read by the blind and visually impaired. All of the sites and resources to which Read 'Em and Speak is linked are either intrinsically speech and braille-friendly, or have been extensively re-indexed locally so as to ensure easy and immediate access by the blind/VI cybernaut. If you know of any resources not listed here, please email Gregory J. Rosmaita.

Table of Contents

1. Libraries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Worldwide
2. Audio Books, Archives and Resources
3. Braille and Other Tactile Reading/Print Systems
   1. Electronic Braille Book Library: braille-formatted books (BRF file-format)
4. Digital Talking Books: Information & Resources
   1. BookShare.org: harnessing the power of digital talking books
5. Etext Archives, Literature & Linguistic Links
   1. Ars Poetica (The Poetic Arts)
   2. Holy HTML! -- Religious Etexts and Resources
   3. His WebMaster's Choice
      1. Haunted HTML: A Trick or Treat for Hallowe'en
         1. Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
         2. The Vampire Maid by Harold Nisbet
      2. Rebecca and Rowena, a complete work by W.M. Thackeray
      3. The Garden of Unearthly Delights
      4. Terence, this is stupid stuff...
6. How to Subscribe to the Books/Reading Emailing List
   1. Library, Literature, Literacy and Etext-Oriented Lists
7. Pages-In-Progress
   1. Authors, Authors, Authors
   2. Publishers' Pages
   3. Virtual Bookstores

  created September 18, 1996
converted to HTML4 & CSS2 February 23, 1999
contents last updated October 13, 2009