Karen, you're hearing conspiracy theories in the dark. I mentioned that abridgement was made popular by sighted people for their convenience, not as a conspiracy. I was stating an historical fact that you can read about at the web sites of several publishing houses. Abridged books were originally marketed to people who can drive, and those are sighted people as far as I know. They had Drivers book clubs, often sold book of the month packages for rush-hour comuters, and even had a audiobook program for cross-country truckers. To elaborate, my point in bringing this whole thing up was that I want access to the whole book, not a teaser meant for people who can read the whole book later. I don't want NLS doing what the commercial publishers do because our reasons for using NLS books differ from people who buy abridged books. If they want to make both versions available, that's fine with me. I'm just a little uneasy about the whole thing because I can imagine a government accountant seeing that it costs less to do abridged books and putting that idea into action. It hasn't happened, and I know that. It is just a concern floating around in my head.
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