OT? Bookcrossing

You're welcome Nora... one of the great things about this news group, it has quite a variety of topics!

David

Our library system does have unabridged books on tape and CD. However, they are mostly fiction and very little nonfiction. I know a visually-impaired man who has told me that he has access to a service that provides a much broader range of recorded books. I understand it uses a unique recording technique and requires a special player.

Some audiobook companies do the full length book. Terry Pratchett books (fiction) are done by two companies; one does abridgements and the other does full-length books. They are not from the people who have the trademark for "Talking Books", so that might be the difference.

=Tamar

That's possibly DAISY books, a relatively new way of digitally recording audio books, I don't know any of the details. Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic has a growing collection of non-fiction and educational fiction (e.g. Shakespeare) DAISY books, plus tens of thousands of same on special format cassette tapes. They serve clientele world-wide, although I am not up-to-date with their current policies. Located in princeton, NJ, their website

David

Hi Tamar,

I used talking books as a generic term, I didn't know it was a trademarked company. Thanks

David