Online Learning Update

May 16, 2010

Over 1M books online for those visually or learning impaired

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by Geek.com

Efforts to digitize books and put them online have either run into legal hurdles or don’t include some of the most popular works. When they do get online many books are not in formats that are accessible by those who are visually impaired or dyslexic. A new initiative by the Internet Archive plans to change that. The intiative has led to the creation of a new online catalog of downloadable books for the disabled which are available through the new Open Library website.

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/over-1m-books-online-for-those-visually-or-learning-impaired-2010056/

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