Simon Jennings from the National Library for the Blind of the u.K. reports on the launch of a truly exciting program. although it is based in Briton, blind persons worldwide can join the library. The web site listed below tells how. kelly mailto:[log in to unmask]> Newsgroups: alt.comp.blind-users,alt.disability.blind.social Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 19:08:03 +0100 Organization: National Library for the Blind Dear All, Just a quick not to let you know that the National Library for the Blind has teamed up with electronic publisher Online Originals in a experimental project to provide free electronic books to its members. The first phase of the project is launched today and will be featured on In Touch this evening. Online Originals publish original works for use on a PC or a Palm Pilot - the NLB has been working with them to make their stock available for use on a PC with speech synthesis or a portable device such as a Braille Lite or Bookworm. If you are an NLB member interested in receiving one of the three free books on offer in this pilot phase, then why not visit the Online Originals site and get your free book - you'll just need your full library membership number and be prepared to answer a couple of questions. You can find the site at http://www.onlineoriginals.com/nlb.html If you're not yet a member you can join the library via the above page - we'll get your membership number back to you asap (though I'm not in the office tomorrow!) and then you'll be free to go ahead and order. As ever we're keen to hear your comments, particularly as we're hopeful that this pilot may encourage larger publishers to make their materials available to visually impaired people. Hope to hear from you soon. Regards, Simon Simon Jennings, Virtual Library Officer National Library for the Blind Far Cromwell Road Bredbury Stockport SK6 2SG Tel: 0161 3552093 Fax 0161 3552098 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web site: http://www.nlbuk.org VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html