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Thefollowing are provided as examples of Internet sources for books, newspapers, podcasts, music, and electronic texts that can be downloaded and transferred to the Stream. HumanWare makes no promises as to the accuracy, quality, or availability of these sources.

King James Old and New Testament in human recorded audio available from the Association for the Blind of Western Australia (ABWA) in cooperation with Aurora Ministries. It can be accessed from the ABWA talking book library You must qualify as pritn-disabled and register for free ABWA library service. To sign up visit

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.

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

This is a Membership site containing thousands of old-time radio programs. Free membership offered to persons with disabilities.

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NBP sells a number of books at very affordable prices for download or on CD . They also have some free material. The books are in ASCII text, DAISY, or their PortaBook format. All these formats are supported by the Stream. The PortaBook format are electronic Braille (BRF) files. Visit the NBP online bookstore at:

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.

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.

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

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:

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:

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. DAISY home page is:

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. The list of DAISY members can be found at:

Archivox - La littrature comme vous ne l'avez jamais entendue! Plusieurs centaines d'audio textes sur le site, selon les cas aux formats Real Audio ou MP3 (la cration d'un compte est alors obligatoire) :

France Loisirs, en partenariat avec la socit amricaine Audible, premier distributeur de contenus culturels sonores sur internet aux tats-Unis, est l'origine de la version franaise Audible.fr. De nombreux livres, journaux, magazines et missions sont tlchargeables :

Banque de documents sonores internationaux - vente en ligne. "Amateurs d'histoire sonore, documentalistes la recherche de contenu audio pour des documentaires, des films historiques, des CD ou DVD-Roms, des expositions historiques, collectionneurs de disques de voix parles ou simples curieux intrigus par les chos du pass, bienvenue l'Institut des Archives Sonores! Plus de 200 000 documents en langues originales, datant de 1888 aujourd'hui."

NB: site difficilement accessible aux utilisateurs d'une aide technique vocale ou braille :

Le portail de toutes les littratures sonores et des livres audio. Site cr par un groupe d'tudiants de l'INTD qui recense des bibliothques et librairies sonores et propose des extraits tlcharger :

La bibliothque numrique Ssame met la disposition exclusive des personnes handicapes prs de 10 000 ouvrages disponibles ou en cours d'adaptation pour tout public. Ses ouvrages de littrature gnrale sont disponibles en prt, sur CD-Rom et par tlchargement scuris :

www.bibliosesame.fr/

"Rien n'est vendre sur UbuWeb. Tout est gratuit [...] "UbuWeb a pour vocation d'tre un centre de distribution pour tout ce qui est dur--trouver , puis, ou confidentiel, et qui a fait l'objet d'un transfert digital sur le web."

La plupart des pages du site sont en anglais, mais beaucoup sont traduites, dont la F.A.Q. :

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Le journal parl Vocale Presse est un Logiciel mis au point par Akompas Technologies permettant d'couter une trentaine de titres de la presse crite franaise et trangre pour un prix infrieur un euro par jour :

Site de tlchargement de contenu audio aux formats MP3 et AAC. "Vous tes lecteur? Vous tes diteur papier? Donnez une seconde vie vos Romans en ralisant une version audio. Vous tes diteur audio? Diffusez votre contenu au plus grand nombre. Vous tes narrateur? Faites-vous connatre en enregistrant des livres audio." :

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact thatliterature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possessthem already.Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones, in ADance to the Music of Time

"I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of theEmperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: 'Does aught befall you? It is good. Itis part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from thebeginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web'."

I breatheda bit stertorously.

"He said that, did he?"

"Yes, sir."

"Well,you can tell him from me he's an ass."P. G. Wodehouse, TheMating Game (1949), chap. 4

HIS OWN LINKS TO SOME BROAD SUBJECT AREAS ARECATEGORIZED IN: (1) HUMANITIES, (2) SCIENCE, (3) ENTERTAINMENT, AND (4) MISCELLANEOUS.

Temporary links include:Spencer R. Weart wrote a marvelous book about The Discovery ofGlobal Warming (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003; its2004 paperback reprint remains in print). A larger version of this studyconstitutes his vastly informative website, wittily called The Discovery ofGlobal Warming.The interested reader of Weart will alsofind amusing additional reading in a trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson,Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Daysand Counting (New York: Bantam: 2003-2007; mass-market paperbacks areor will be available) -- very scary stuff.See also the U.S. NationalAssessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability andChange. The Looting andDestruction of the Collections of the National Museum and Library of Iraq-- April 2003 is Vassar College's tribute to G. W. Bush'scivilizing mission. This site introduces theauthor of a book about American combat in Afghanistan -- rememberAfghanistan? Two essays by a famous American journalist are:"The Droves of Academe"O Brother WedArt Thou?.Understanding theEvents of September 11, 2001 is a list of books from Americanuniversity presses. This is asimilar list from Salon.com.Here is IslamicStudies, Islam, Arabic, and Religion, by Alan Godlas, University ofGeorgia. TheDays After contains reflections after 11 September, from theUniversity of Chicago Press. On an altogether different note, Jen Wolfe provides aterrific little list of books (with links to more) directed at young womeninterested in combining their love of books, a moderate (or rather anextremely low) income, and love, at Library Career Romances. Here is a summary of, as well as the full report about, a November1999 conference, "A Sense of Place", onmaterial culture resources and institutions in Philadelphia and itsregion, together with some follow-ups. Jutta Reed-Scott writes about PreservingResearch Collections (Washington, DC: . . . the Association ofResearch Libraries, the Modern Language Association, and the AmericanHistorical Association on behalf of the Task Force on the Preservation ofthe Artifact, 1999). The Council on Library and Information Resources issued The Evidencein Hand: The Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in LibraryCollections. Howard Besser consuiders "IntellectualProperty: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace", a report fromUCLA's School of Education & Information. Relatedly, here is the University of MichiganPresident's Information Revolution Commission ReportThis is the online site of Lawrence Lessig,Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock DownCulture and Control Creativity (New York: Penguin, 2004). Related material in French can be found, e.g., at Text-e, le premier colloqueentirement virtuel consacr explorer l'impact del'Internet sur la lecture, l'criture et la diffusion du savoir. "Bests":the very stupid Modern Library Editorial board's July 1998 listof the 100best novels published in the English language since 1900for the terminally curious, the April 1999 Modern Library list ofthe 100Best Non-Fiction Works of the Centurythe theRadcliffe Publishing Course 100-best-lista list of Hungry Mind Review's100 Best 20th-Century American Booksa list of 100best Western novels (as in "by writers from the American West")perhaps most illuminating, a comparison of the "100 best" list fromthe (London) Daily Telegraph with the same newspaper's 1999 versionmight provoke the meanest sensibility to melancholic reflection on 100 best lists . . . but, alas, no, for here is (as of 12 May 2003) a list of 50 best women's books from TheGuardian, a paper that ought to know better. American FilmInstitute Top 100 American Films of the 20th Century (another site takes you to 200best films and to the 400 nominated best films)British FilmInstitute Top 100 British Films of the Twentieth CenturyCarolineWalker Bynum's "Shape and Story: Metamorphosis in the WesternTradition", the 1999 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities delivered onMarch 22 in Washington, D.C. This is "Reporting the Arts: News Coverage of Arts and Culture inAmerica", PartOne and PartTwo, from the National Arts Journalism Program at ColumbiaUniversity's School of Journalism and School of the Arts. Antony Dugdale, J. J. Fueser,and J. Celso de Castro Alves, "Yale, Slavery & Abolition"

A secondary homepage exists only to make Traister findable for those who look himup via Penn's Library.

INTRODUCTIONTraister is Curator, Research Services, Walter H. and Leonore AnnenbergRare Book and Manuscript Library (6th floor); English-languageliterature bibliographer, VanPelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut Street; and an adjunctinstructor in the Department ofEnglish at the University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. Penn -- of which you can see a somewhat older view than currentlycharacterizes the place here -- maintains,inter alia, several useful sites:The Daily PennsylvanianThe AlmanacThe Pennsylvania Gazettethe University LibraryKelly Writers HousePenn Humanities ForumPenn CalendarsPennEnglish Department calendarOnline UniversityDirectoryBenefitsSAS students, their parents, advisors, and faculty will find at leastsome of these sites useful:Advisor InTouchresources foracademic advisorsThe College at Penna site for incomingfirst-year studentsNew Student Orientationaguide to course selectionfirst-yearseminars and writingseminarsCourse register Course timetablesinformationabout AP creditsmajors andprograms and minorsAcademicallyBased Community Service (ABCS) coursesforeignlanguage requirements and foreignlanguage placement examsCareerServicesVarious forms of help for students can be found atWeingartenLearning Resources CenterAdvising andother academic support programs (this is an index to tutoring,CURF, PennCAP, and aLOT of other programs, only some of which are specified bylinks immediately below)WritingCenterCaseNet(College academic support network)CollegeHouses and Academic ServicesCounseling andPsychological Services (CAPS)Office ofHealth EducationStudent HealthServicesanoverview of requirements, together with degreerequirements for the class of 2010 and later and degreerequirements for the class of 2009 and earlier For major selection and other degree decisions, seeMajorDepartments and ProgramsminorsDepartmentand Program ChairsMajorAdvising Program (MAP)WhatCan I Do With My Major? (from Career Services)Center forUndergraduate Research and FellowshipsAcademic Options andChoices, an important sector on the College Home Page (it's the thirdlink from the left on the bar running all across the page)the Academic Blog (this is the site advisors enter; NOTE that advisors cannot enter the student blog site except to read the blogs of their own advisees)the College coursescanner [which seems these days to be offline -- 15 June 2009]aregistration tutorial aimed at first-year studentsa guide tostudy abroad optionsan overall guide for incoming first-year students; see especially The Curriculuma site where Penn faculty can check courseenrollmentsa general guide forCollege facultya general guide (with additional links) for parentsonce again,Penn'sLibraryPenn's English DepartmentPenn Blackboard CoursewareTraister teaches courses on English and American literature and on the history of books and printing for Penn's Department of English, General Honors program, and College of General Studies. During the fall semester of 2008, he is teaching a class entitled Confronting Deity: Religious Dramas. Peter Nichols's article about a course Traister co-taught during the spring semester of 1999 appeared in the July 1999 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette, Penn's alumni magazine. Another of Peter Nichols' articles, about a different course, appeared in the Winter 2001 issue of Colby. (More recently, The Pennsylvania Gazette has written about an unusual book that came to Penn as a gift with which Traister was involved.)

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