Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

Re:Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind by falcolas on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:54PM (#8894094)

The tools around Braille are expensive. Braille computer displays and typewriters are all in the thousands of dollars. Books are in the hundreds of dollars, and hard to obtain.

Screen readers, the computer replacement for Braille, are also stupidly expensive (one I looked up was $900 for the home edition).

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Re:Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind by WalterBright on Friday January 16, 2015 @02:47AM (#8897678)

I'm not blind, but my father had low vision and so I know a little about the experience. It infuriates me that authors have pressured Amazon into removing the audio text reading ability of the Kindle. Such small-minded greed is indefensible.

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Re:Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind by FleshGordon on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:59AM (#8898013)

Most books exist as audio books.

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Re:Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind by wazoox on Friday January 16, 2015 @12:25PM (#8900213)

You mean "a very small subset of all books exist in the more expensive form of an audio book". Just check the library closest to you: 10000s of books, 100s of audio books.

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