I believe that one often overlooked resource for books by blind people is 
their local public libraries.
More and more are including audio books in their collections; and those 
they themselves do not own may be available through interlibrary loan.
We pay taxes to support our public libraries and should not feel inhibited 
in seeing what accessible books they might have.
And if a book is only available through in print, and one has a scanning 
set up, a couple of hours of work can produce perhaps not perfect but more 
than usable text.
These days, I view NLS as a last rather than first resource and believe 
that, in many ways, they may not be needed for all that long into the 
future.
They, like most governmental structures, will survive longer than needed 





He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. 
Jim Elliot
due to vested interests insisting on survival.  A generation or so from 
now, however, I believe that it will take great pains to retain a separate 
library system for the blind.


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