Project puts 1M books online for blind, dyslexic

May 6, 2010 | Source: PhysOrg.com

The nonprofit Internet Archive in San Francisco has hired hundreds of people to scan thousands of books into its digital database so they can be read by the software and devices that blind people use to convert written pages into speech.

The project will initially make one million books available free (under a special license) to the visually impaired, using money from foundations, libraries, corporations and the government.