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New online library launched for people with sight loss (newsletter.co.uk)
submitted by crabcakes110
retrolental_morose 5 points 3y ago
Only the RNIB would launch a library you can't browse with a collection of books in such a variety of formats without any guidance as to how to play them, and with the majority - in DAISY Audio form - that just don't play by default on any platform without steps (generally unzipping) which varies so widely by platform that supporting people to access it is proving rather difficult.
impablomations 3 points 3y ago
TBH it's pretty dire. I tried it when it first launched as I already had membership through the RNIB Overdrive.

Tried a number of popular authors and not a single result.

The Audiobooks are pretty bad too. They only have RNIB editions using their own narrators who all have ridiculously posh accents.
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