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Comment Books for the Dyslexic (Score 3, Informative) 683

HungryHobo wrote:

When looking for schoolbooks for the severely dyslexic little brother of a friend we tried looking for audio books. Turned out there was an organisation which used to deal with that here. Notice "was". For schoolbooks which had no audio book available from the publisher they'd got teachers who volunteered to record audio books for blind students. Guess what the publishers thought of that. Now they aren't allowed hand out recordings to blind students and the publishers aren't interested in making or distributing any since the market is so small.

Did you check with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic? They do require documentation of a print disability for membership.

Comment Re:CALM DOWN (Score 1) 849

There's an interesting comment on Sen. Ford's practice of filing bills that go nowhere in today's Charleston paper: "Ford continues to file a stack of bills every session. Not many make it into the law, at least not directly. He puts the bills on record to please his constituents and then pursues other avenues to get them in the law books." http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/jan/14/the_odd_couple68284/ I guess it's better to satisfy a complaining constituent that way than to attach the text to some bill that might actually pass.
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Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube 222

JTRipper writes "Monty Python seems to have done the right thing. Instead of issuing take down notices of their videos on YouTube, they are doing it better themselves with their own YouTube channel. They are putting all their clips (including snips from their movies) up in a decent resolution, with the only caveat being a link to buying the movies and TV episodes from Amazon."

Feed New Leopard Species Found (wired.com)

Genetic tests reveal the clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra is a unique cat species and not, as long believed, the same one found in mainland Southeast Asia. By the Associated Press.


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