Impaired go online for Spanish-speaking ’library for the blind’
Tagged: book, Doctor, latin america, library“For retired doctor Edgardo Etchevarria, reading was a lifelong habit until retinal infections took away his sight 13 years ago.Posted on: May 7th, 2007“I wasn’t practicing medicine anymore and reading was the last thing I had left,” Etchevarria said, lamenting the years after darkness closed in.
Now 83, the voracious reader who tackled Homer’s “Odyssey” at age 10 is hitting the books again thanks to Tiflolibros, Latin America’s virtual library for the blind. The service sends out e-mail files that can be read out by synthetic voice software on the user’s computer. “
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