Victor Reader Stream Finding Content

Here's a comprehensive list of all kinds of sources to find content to fill up your Stream.

ACB Radio Archives

The Mainstream channel of ACB Radio maintains an MP3 archive of past radio shows which includes technology reviews and other items of general interest or entertainment. http://bit.ly/i8UfY

Accessible World

Here you can find downloads of online seminars from the Accessible World Tech Talk training sessions as well as archives of other webinars. http://accessibleworld.org/

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Text

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 "classic" public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. http://infomotions.com/alex/

Amazon.com

American and UK customers can buy MP3 music tracks and albums from Amazon. MP3 sales are promised for other countries in the future. http://www.amazonmp3.com/http://www.amazon.co.uk/

American Printing House (APH)

APH has extensive resources including the Louis database and file repository, the Fred's Head Companion database of ideas and tips, and Braille and audio files. http://www.aph.org/

Fred's Head data Base

Of special interest is the APH list of Old Time Radio and Newsreels http://www.fredshead.info/2006/10/old-time-radio-shows-and-newsreels.html

Audible.com

Popular site for commercial audio books. Books are not DAISY but are recorded human speech. http://www.audible.com/humanware

Audible in United Kingdom

http://www.audible.co.uk/

Audible in Germany

http://www.audible.de/

Audio Bibles for the Blind

Provides free audio Bibles to over 135 countries in over 60 languages. English version available in MP3 CD. Currently working to add other languages in MP3 format. http://www.audiobiblesfortheblind.org/

Audio Books - Megashop

Purchase and download MP3 audio books. http://www.audiobook-megashop.com/

Audio Book Stand

This is a commercial audio book source where many of the books in MP3 format are actually DAISY books that can be navigated on Stream by chapter and page. You must purchase the books. http://www.audiobookstand.com/

Baen Free Library

This site provides books in electronic text formats such as rtf and html. http://www.baen.com/

BBC's podcast directory

Download a wide range free podcasts from BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/

Blind Cool Tech

This is a site of archived podcasts in MP3 format. There is a great variety of topics of interest to blind and low vision people including many technology reviews. http://www.blindcooltech.com/

Booksfree.com

This is a subscription book rental service where you receive MP3 CDs by mail which must be returned. You will find over 18000 unabridged audio books to choose from. http://booksfree.com/

Bookshare

Membership-based digital library for People with Visual or Physical Impairments and Dyslexia. Bookshare.org Library now free to all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities. Due to copyright restrictions, most of their non-public domain books are available only to American members. You must be a member of Bookshare to download. http://www.bookshare.org/
A subset of Bookshare books is available to non-American members:

HarperCollins (fiction and non-fiction)

Scholastic (children's titles)

Baen Books (science fiction and fantasy)

O'Reilly Media (computer technology)

All their public domain titles

Calibre Audio Library

This site provides free audio books for people who have sight problems, dyslexia or physical disabilities. They offer a wide choice of books on MP3 disks, fiction and non-fiction, for both children and adults http://www.calibre.org.uk/

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Podcasts

This page contains many podcasts from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/

CD Baby

An online music store that sells CD albums and MP3 album downloads, from over 260,000 independent artists. http://www.cdbaby.com/

CNIB Library Help Page

Provides information on popular sources of audio. http://webcluster.cnib.ca/Public/Help_content.aspx?Help_Topic=e_delivery

CNN Podcasts

Find podcasts of CNN programming. http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/

DAISY Scriptures

Scriptures of various faiths including the Bible, Book of Mormon, and the Koran in DAISY 2.02, DAISY/NISO 2005 (Z39.86), and DAISY text-only formats. http://www.cucat.org/books/scriptures/scriptures.php

EASI - Equal Access to Software and Information

Accessible information technology through podcasts, webinars and online courses. http://www.easi.cc/

Emusic

Emusic is a subscription-based service for downloading MP3 music and books. http://www.emusic.com/

Fear You Can Hear

This is a Membership site containing thousands of old-time radio programs. Free membership offered to persons with disabilities. http://www.fearyoucanhear.com/

Fictionwise Audio Books

Sells a variety of digital audio books and radio shows in MP3 format. Go to http://www.fictionwise.com/ or http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/audio.htm to go directly to the audio books section.

Internet Archive Universal Library

Thousands of free e-texts as well as recorded audio, fiction and nonfiction, spoken word, music, and radio shows. http://www.archive.org/details/universallibrary

Learn Out Loud

LearnOutLoud.com describes itself as your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads and podcasts. http://www.learnoutloud.com/

LibriVox

Free Audio Books from the Public Domain recorded by volunteers. http://www.Librivox.org/

Many Books

Over 20000 free books in various electronic text formats such as html and rtf. http://www.manybooks.net/

Movies for the Blind

Takes public-domain movies and adds audio description to them, making them available for free listening or download. http://bit.ly/145no4

Napster

This is a commercial site where American citizens can purchase music songs and albums in MP3 format. They promise to expand the MP3 sales to other countries in the future. http://www.napster.com/

NBP.org - National Braille Press

NBP sells a number of books in Braille at very affordable prices. These books are also available for download in their PortaBook format. They also have some material for free download. The PortaBook format are electronic Braille (BRF) files that can be played on the Stream. http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/publications.html?id=ztYqght5

NFB-NEWSLINE®

Offers over 280 newspaper and magazines to residents of the United States with a qualifying print disability. http://www.nfbnewsline.org

NFB Publications

NFB also makes available to the public many other publications in audio and e-text. See their publications page at: http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Publications.asp?SnID=1635108180#skip

Overdrive

Recorded audio book download service for over 7500 public libraries worldwide. Most books are in protected WMA format but many titles are also available in unprotected MP3 format. You must be a member of a public library that uses the Overdrive service. http://www.overdrive.com/

Pay per Listen

Pay per Listen is a division of AudioBooks.com that sells popular books for download in MP3 format. http://www.payperlisten.com/

Podcast Alley

Over 20 genres of over 50,000 podcasts with over 3 million episodes. http://www.podcastalley.com/

Podiobooks

Audio books produced as podcasts. Many are read by the authors. Content is free, but donations encouraged. http://www.podiobooks.com/

Project Gutenberg

This is a well known repository for public domain books in electronic format. Most books are e-text but some are recorded audio. http://www.gutenberg.org/

Radio Out of the Past

Here you can download and listen to podcasts of old radio show favorites as well as discussions about old-time radio. http://www.radiooutofthepast.org/

Rhapsody MP3 Store

Purchase MP3 music for download - U.S. citizens only. http://mp3.rhapsody.com/home.html

Read How You Want Braille and DAISY Store

An Australian download service that provides Duxbury Braille (BRF) books and DAISY books. There are books for sale and some free public domain books. DAISY books are text-only or various recorded synthesized voices. They also offer a service to create accessible books on demand. http://www.readhowyouwant.com/

ReadAssist

Read Assist provides links to many sources of electronic texts and audio books, some for free and others for sale. http://www.readassist.org/

System Access Mobile Network

A service made available by Serotek.com, the System Access Mobile Network is a subscription-based online community for Blind and low vision people from which you can download described movies, podcasts, email messages, and RSS feeds. It is designed for easy access from any Internet-enabled computer with or without a screen reader. If you are a Serotek customer with a subscription to their System Access Mobile Network services, you can listen to content from the Serotek network on your Stream. Just connect the Stream to a PC and go to http://www.satogo.com/ The System Access Mobile server does both the content download and transfer to the Stream for you. The content is stored in a $VRSerotek folder on the SD card for presentation on the various Stream bookshelves. You can find instructions at: http://help.samobile.net/VRStreamSync.html or you can listen to audio demonstrations at: http://www.samobile.net/content/cat14790.html

Serotalk Podcasts

A production of Serotek, these podcasts feature information on assistive technology, accessibility, entertainment and more. http://www.serotalk.com/

Talking Newspapers in the U.K.

You will find here links to numerous newspapers. http://www.tnauk.co.uk/

Torch Trust

The Torch Trust produces Christian literature in formats that blind and partially sighted people can read: html, audio, large print, and Braille. Over 2000 publications including the Bible in DAISY format. http://www.torchtrust.org/

DAISY Consortium

DAISY Consortium Web Site The DAISY Consortium web site contains comprehensive information about the DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) standard, as well as its member organizations, news, and projects. There is also a DAISY Planet newsletter you can subscribe to to keep up to date on DAISY activities and marketplace. http://www.daisy.org/.

DAISY Consortium Members

Of interest is the extensive list of DAISY members and friends worldwide. The list includes DAISY libraries, as well as organizations and companies that provide hardware and software to produce and play DAISY digital books. Many of the libraries also provide online DAISY books for loan and download. http://www.daisy.org/about_us/members.shtml.