Listening instead of Reading

Newspapers and Magazines

Talking Information Center
The mission of the Talking Information Center in Massachusettes, USA, is to provide disabled people access to the printed word. News from the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, USA today, the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines are being read out to the visitor of the website.
- www.ticnetwork.com

Choice Magazine Listening
Choice Magazine Listening (CML) is a free audio anthology based in the USA for blind, visually impaired or physically handicapped subscribers. CML selects and records memorable writing from over 100 leading magazines. Every other month, this free service offers its subscribers eight hours of articles, fiction and poetry read by professional voices and recorded on four-track cassette tapes.
- http://members.aol.com/choicemag

Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
This association records around 230 national newspapers and magazines on audio cassette for visually impaired and disabled people. It offers for small additional costs subscribers a choice of formats including audio cassette, computer disc, e-mail, via the TNAUK Bulletin Board, CD-ROM.
- www.tnauk.org.uk

Braille and Audio Libraries

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (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. The catalogue can be searched online.
- www.loc.gov/nls

The National Library for the Blind (NLB)
The UK based charity houses Europe's largest collection of Braille and Moon books and provides a free postal library service to blind and partially sighted people worldwide. NLB-online is fully accessible and enables users to browse the catalogue, choose books for loan and take part in reading activities and discussion boards.
- www.nlb-online.org