As of this instant I see that the count is 701,219. I once read
somewhere that an average public library has about 40 thousand volumes.
I don't remember where I read that, so I just tried Googling for the
number. Maybe I couldn't think of the right phrasing for my search, but
I didn't find the answer. If we accept the 40 thousand figure, though,
that means that Bookshare has about 17 and a half public libraries of
books. There are some factors that could reduce that a bit, though.
Bookshare does have a lot of duplicates and a lot of the publisher
supplied books are actually little more than publisher advertising. But
if we accept the 700 thousand plus figure then Bookshare still has a
long way to go to catch up with the tens of millions of books in the
Library of Congress. Also, some time back - perhaps a couple of years
ago - I heard something about the NFB partnering with some organization,
the name of which I forget, to make tens of millions of books available
to blind people. What ever happened to that?
On 4/1/2019 3:41 PM, Judy wrote:
Bookshare now has 700,000 books available. That's awesome.To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Judy
