Alternative Format Textbooks

Braille & Audio Textbooks

• Braille: The American Printing House for the Blind
  • For a list of other sources: Louis Database
• Audio: Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Audio and Braille: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)

Audio & eBook Textbooks

• Adelphi University Bookstore
  Offer e-textbooks for certainly required textbooks.
• Amazon.com
  Provides e-textbooks and audio format.
• Learning Ally
  Provides e-textbooks and audio format.  (For information regarding a free membership, contact the Student Acess Office.)
• Bookshare
  Provides alternative format textbooks in PDF and DAISY
• Cengage Brain
  Provides e-textbook rentals and e-textbooks.
• Chegg
  Provides e-textbooks.
• Vital Source
  Provides e-textbooks.
• Textbooks.com
  Provides e-textbooks.
• AccessText
  Provides e-textbooks.
• Bartleby.com
  Bartleby.com publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for home and classroom use.
• Project Gutenberg
  The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books, and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs, and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
• Internet Public Library
  The Internet Public Library is the first public library of the Internet and is committed to providing library services to the Internet community.
• Bookshare.org
  Bookshare.org is an online community that enables people with visual and other print disabilities to legally share scanned books. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled.