How Do You Select A Talking Book?

[mosaix]

So if you're visually impaired how do you select a talking book from your local library? How do you know what you're selecting and if it will interest you?

Here in my local library they're running a pilot scheme.

First, for each talking book a sighted volunteer scans the spine of the talking book into a hand held device, then records orally details of the book - author, story line etc.

Visually impaired library users then use the device to 'browse' the talking books section. First they scan a spine, the device identifies the book and then plays back the previously recorded details.

Simple.

[TheDustyZebra]

Cool.

So it's not just like the restaurant that has a sign in the window that says, "we have menus in braille".

"We have talking books", says the sign you can't read. This is much more useful!