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Audio and Braille Books Choice Magazine offers a free audio anthology for an audience of blind, visually impaired or physically handicapped subscribers. Formerly Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, membership is required. Fees may apply.
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Audible News & Information
Once connected, state "tape" or "information tape". Updated every Friday. NFB-Newsline is free for individuals who cannot read regular print. Every day, a subscriber can choose that day's, the previous day's, or the previous Sunday's issue of any newspaper in the service--national and local papers are offered. Over 40 magazines are also available. Talking Information Center (TIC) is a radio reading service that provides the reading of daily newspapers, periodicals, shopping guides, best selling books, community events and more. Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to listeners who are visually and/or print impaired. The Audible Local Ledger is a free radio broadcast serving Cape Cod, the islands and South Coast. Listeners can also tune in on an Echo Dot or Google Home, or through an app to hear the reading of daily newspapers, current periodicals, shopping guides, best selling books, and calendars of community events. Audio Journal is Central Massachusetts' free radio reading service for individuals who are print disabled.The service broadcasts twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Local and national newspapers and magazines are read, plus special and general interest programs are produced. The Berkshire Talking Chronicle provides free-of-charge radio reading services to visually-impaired and print-handicapped listeners in the Berkshires Programming is offered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year includes local news and information from the Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield Gazette, North Adams Transcript, Singer Shout Out!, shopping circular, community events and articles from national periodicals. |
