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Reading at Your Fingertips


If you love to read, but are limited in your ability to get out and about, www.Gutenberg.org   has some 56,000 Ebooks you can download and read.  Their only qualification is that you do not use anything but your computer.  However, I imagine if you write them first and let them know that you are blind and need to use your reading machine, you can use their system with no problem.  Just be sure to let them know.  This is a great opportunity to have regular books on a huge variety of subjects available for you.  

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