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Bookshare.org Member Alex Clark.
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Bookshare.org allows qualified members access to over 40,000 books that are free to use, are typically used for U.S. students suffering for disabilities. Serves people with Visual Impairments, Physical Disabilities, and people with learning disabilities. This can be the building block for the future for many students who will now not have to depend on family or friends to help them with their reading assignments. The books are adaptable to be placed on an I-pod so students can take their work where they go. Many authors and publishers provide their works for the Bookshare members to use. Bookshare members download books, textbooks and newspapers, encrypted files. Kurzweil 3000 software (used in the video) converts books from text to speech. This enables many students to stay on task because they receive the written text, as well as, being able to listen to the text. Overall, it seems very effective. My sister has a reading disability and she uses software just like this and it really does work and helps her work independently on her assignments.

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