Alternate Format Books

Large Print Books

Ø www.lsvi.org/LIMC.htm - Louisiana Instructional Materials Center offers a depository which it provides eligible registered patrons with Braille and large print texts and other educational materials in a cost-effective, timely manner.

Ø www.aph.org - American Printing House for the Blind has the Louis Database of Accessible Materials for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired. It has information for over 170,000 titles in Braille, large print, sound recording, and computer file from over 170 agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Louis also includes downloadable computer text files from the APH File Repository and APH products.

Ø www.hugeprint.com - Huge Print Press custom enlarges everything from Bibles to Textbooks to Novels to Cookbooks. Unlike other large-print providers, YOU TELL US what font size you want. That’s right! You tell us what book and what font size, and we’ll do the rest. Our books are also bound in a convenient 8.5"x11" format and shipped in a timely manner!

Ø www.loc.gov/nls/ - Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of Braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.

Braille Books

Ø www.lsvi.org/LIMC.htm - Louisiana Instructional Materials Center offers a depository which it provides eligible registered patrons with Braille and large print texts and other educational materials in a cost-effective, timely manner.

Ø www.aph.org - American Printing House for the Blind has the Louis Database of Accessible Materials for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired. It has information for over 170,000 titles in Braille, large print, sound recording, and computer file from over 170 agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Louis also includes downloadable computer text files from the APH File Repository and APH products.

Ø www.ilr.org/ - Independent Living Resources provides transcription services on a modest scale. We transcribe print texts into Braille, Cassette-Tape, or CD.

Ø http://www.loc.gov/nls/ - Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of Braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.

Ø www.braille.org/braille_books/#read - International Electronic Braille Book Library has some of the world's greatest literature, some of which has never been available in Braille until now. This collection currently contains over 1,000 titles; the largest collection of electronic Braille (e-Braille) books in the world. You can read them on-line if you own or have access to a paperless Braille Display device or you can download them to read off-line either in hard-copy Braille or by loading them in to devices such as Braille notetakers.

Audio Books

Ø www.state.lib.la.us - Louisiana Library Connection Databases are a collection of online subscription databases. You may search the databases one at a time or all at once using the NetLibrary, which can include eBooks, eJournals, audiobooks, and reference resources, from the NetLibrary web site. Patrons can search for and read full-text eContent (eBooks or eJournals) or listen to audiobooks in your library's collection.

Ø www.amazon.com - Online bookstore.

Ø www.rfbd.org - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), a national nonprofit, volunteer organization, has been the leading accessible audiobook library for students with disabilities such as visual impairment or dyslexia that make reading standard print difficult or impossible for the last 60 years. With titles available in every subject area and grade level, RFB&D’s digitally recorded audio textbooks on CD and downloadable audio textbooks help students challenged by the printed page.

Ø www.loc.gov/nls - Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of Braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail.

Ø www.audio-studio.org/ASRI_Site/HOME.html - Audio Studio for the Reading Impaired (ASRI) provides audio tapes and CDs of all types of printed materials to meet individual requests.

Ø librivox.org – Free audio files of chapter books in the public domain.

Ø http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ - Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

Electronic Books

Ø www.ebookmall.com - eBookMall offers over 210,000 eBooks with new titles being added frequently. EBooks are ordered online and delivered electronically to your computer. Offered for many different platforms. Prices vary.

Ø www.ereader.com - eReader.com is the first electronic book publisher to offer contemporary fiction and non-fiction books, newspapers, and magazines for reading on handheld computers including the Palm Organizer, Sony Clié, Handspring Visor, and Pocket PC machines, as well as Windows and Macintosh computers. Our commercial eBooks are typically priced less than or equal to the list price of their paper counterparts.

Ø www.mobipocket.com - Mobipocket is the leader for reading eBooks on mobile devices: read dozens of thousands titles on your PDA or on your smartphone (Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm OS, Symbian, PocketPC, Franklin eBookMan, etc.). Has over 40 thousands titles available on their website: novels, series, dictionaries, professional titles... Bring them with you everywhere. Prices vary.

Ø www.accessiblebookcollection.org - The Accessible Book Collection is a non-profit corporation. Our primary mission is to provide high interest/low reading level digital text to qualified persons with disabilities. Government and non-profit schools and others can subscribe to the very affordable Accessible Book Collection and have a large selection of e-books for all their eligible students for one low price. Ebooks available in html, Boardmaker Plus, Classroom Suite and Clicker 5. The cost of an annual subscription is $49.95. School district site licenses are available. There is a minimum of 10 schools to qualify for a district site license.

Ø www.baen.com/library/ - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels, mostly the first in an ongoing series to get you hungry for more. Available for free download in a number of formats, without copy protection.

Ø manybooks.net - There are 18,786 e-Books available and they're all free! A large selection of books to be read on your PDA, cell phone, iPod, iPhone and more.

Ø www.bookrags.com/- Small selection of free choices, and thousands more for premium members. Can be downloaded as PDF or Word documents.

Ø www.bookshare.org/ - The Bookshare.org library provides print disabled people in the United States with free legal access to over 41,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or digital formats for text to speech audio.

Ø www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page - The first free project for converting public domain works into a digital format; their selection now numbers over 100,000.

Ø www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/- An Internet Public Library of online texts hosted at other sites.

Ø www.mslit.com/- Over 1,500 free texts provided by Microsoft for their MS Reader.

Ø onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/- A gigantic directory of e-books from all over the web. These sites have free text that can be used with commercial and free test readers (ReadPlease and Natural Reader).

Ø www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp- A decent sized free collection of classic novels all in PDF format.

Ø www.readeasily.com/ - A free e-books site specifically with the elderly and somewhat visually impaired in mind that allows you to change colors, fonts, and size to make it more legible.

Ø www.pagebypagebooks.com - Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! It is an ideal way to expand your horizons, catch up on your reading list, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read.