[bookshare-discuss] Re: Internet Archive makes 1.6 million DAISY books available
- From: Chela Robles <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:24:41 -0700
Fascinating!
On 10/23/09, Bookshare Volunteer <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below is a link to a fascinating article on the launch of the Internet
> Archive Bookserver project. It's worth reading as they have made 1.6
> million books accessible in the DAISY format. If you go to their
> catalog, it doesn't show DAISY by default because it's still in beta,
> but it's there if you go to the second link. I am very proud of the
> Internet Archive for including the blind on their own and launching with
> DAISY support right from the start. As I said, there are already 1.6
> million public domain books that can be downloaded now. I'm not sure if
> all of them are DAISY, but the one I downloaded was.
>
> http://followthereader.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-day-it-all-changed/
> http://www.archive.org/details/texts/americana/
>
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