Books on Tape: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - 800/221-4792 http://www.rfbd.org Internet Talking Bookshop http://www.orma.co.uk/intabs.htm Books on Tape - 800/626-3333 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/nls/nls.html Digital Libraries: Institute for Learning Technologies' Digital Texts - E-text source for academic text. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/academic/digitexts/index.html Gutenberg Project - "fine literature digitally re-published" http://promo.net/pg BiblioBytes - hundreds of free books to download; others to purchase; http://www.bb.com Camera Obscura - E-text sources http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/etext.html Carrie: A Full-text Electronic Library - Text for Adults http://www.books.com/scripts/lib.exe Electronic Library - A free public service for the dissemination of electronic books. http://www.books.com/scripts/lib.exe Hanover College History Web Site Writings from literature, philosophy, politics, theology, and science. http://history.hanover.edu/texts.htm Children's Literature Web Guide - "an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults." http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ Internet Public Library (Youth Division) - Links to childrens' picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables, and magazines. http://www.ipl.org/youth/ Project Bartleby - An archive of actual texts of classic childrens' works on the web. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/ CD ROM Start-To-Finish Books Don Johnston - 800/999-4660 New - check on - http://www.ldresources.com/#Electronic Text Here are some additional resources for digitized text or e-text. There is a nice article on e-text in the CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) Interfaces newsletter - Spring 1998 issue. You can obtain an electronic format of this newsletter from their website. http://www.cast.org Additional E-text resources Project LITT: Literacy Through Technology Website: Interactive Books on CD-ROM for Students with Learning Disabilities Most books are in the Grades 1-4 reading level, a few in the 5-8 reading level. Each book has a software profile with extensive information on the interactive book that has been reviewed by this project. To be included in the future are results of studies looking at the effectiveness of CD-ROM-based storybooks and the results of a naturalistic study of the effectiveness of bilingual CD-ROM based storybooks for English language learners with learning disabilites. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/SPED/ProjectLitt/LITT Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic Most books are at the secondary level. You cannot request textbooks to be put into e-text format but you have access to books that have already been put into this format. http://www.rfbd.org Additional web sites that contain e-text: Access 2020 - http://www.access2020.com/ra.html The Wilkie Collins Etext Page - http://www.cyberramp.net/~jrusk/ Audionet CD Jukebox - http://www.audionet.com/jukebox/ Peru State College Library Etext Books Online http://www.peru.edu/~lindsay/etext.html The English Server Fiction Collection http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/fiction Gopher site for Fiction - gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/11/Book Singapore Association of Visually Handicapped Etext Archives http://www.dpa.org.sg/SAVH/etext.htm Howard Tilton Memorial Library Online Journals and Books http://www.tulane.edu/~html/ejourn.htm Classic Short Stories - http://www.bnl.com/shorts Middle English Bookcase http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu http://opera.nta.no