Welcome to the International Electronic Braille Book Library

## The Electronic Braille Book Library

Indices | Help | Translation | Problems | Contributions

Welcome to the International Electronic Braille Book Library, a project of the International Braille Research Center. We're glad you decided to take this journey. By visiting this page you have launched yourself on a voyage of discovery of some of the world's greatest literature, some of which has never been available in Braille until now. This collection currently contains over 1,000 titles; the largest collection of electronic Braille (e-Braille) books in the world. Here you will find books and other writings that span the galaxy of time and centuries. It's all here, everything from the writings of Aristotle to the latest books on success and personal achievement. Our collection includes books by many authors from different nations and cultures, each of whom has a story to tell or words of wisdom to pass down to future generations. You may have read some of these books as a childhood bedtime story, or have studied them in a high school or a college literature class. Now you can relive those days gone by and share these great books with your families and friends.

### Table of Contents

- Portability
- Reading Books
- Indices
- Translating Books
- Reporting Problems
- Contributions to the Braille Library

### Portability

For the first time Blind people can now have Braille-on-the-go. E-Braille texts on disk are a convenient way to keep your favorite books with you at all times without having to hire a truck to transport them. If you travel a lot, or are simply cramped for space where you live or work, you will enjoy having hours of reading with you wherever you go.

### Reading Books

There are two ways to read the books in this collection. You can read them on-line if you own or have access to a paperless Braille Display device or you can download them to read off-line either in hard-copy Braille or by loading them in to devices such as Braille notetakers. You can download individual parts of a book, an individual book, or an entire collection of books by a specific author simply by selecting the appropriate links on the specified pages.

These "e-Braille" books are `ascii` text files which appear as grade II English Braille on paperless Braille displays and Braille printers.

You can find out what is available from this library by visiting our Index pages:

- Index by Author
- Index by Title

For more information about our index pages, translation services, and more, see our help pages.

Check back often. If your favorite book is not listed this time chances are that it will be here in the future. We are constantly updating this collection so do check back often.

### Translating books

We are always looking for folks to help us with translation of materials in to e-Braille to add to this collection. If you want to help expand our offerings please study our guidelines for translators which explains how to translate books for inclusion in this collection. We will appreciate your help with this effort. It's a sure-fire way to ensure that your favorite books get added to this collection.

Please be sure to study this information carefully before translating books for us. This section will be updated as new issues arise and fixes for them are developed. Check in often for the latest information on e-Braille translation.

If you have the time and are willing to assist us with translation please contact Michael Gosse for further information and to obtain titles for translation. We can also use help with scanning non-e text books for translation and with modification of translated titles in order to maintain them and to clear up problems. His contact information is as follows:
IBRC
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, MD 21224
E-mail: mgosse@prodigy.net

As is true with many other resources on the Internet you may discover some glitches here and there. Should you encounter difficulty in reading a book please note the nature of the problem as well as the part of the book in which the problem exists. This will be easy to do as we have placed many of the titles in the library broken up in some fashion such as by chapter or by short story. Please report any difficulties you may have had to Robert Jaquiss.

When you report a problem let us know the following information:

1. The Book title
2. The Part chapter or story number or name in which the problem occurred
3. The nature of the problem

We will make all efforts to troubleshoot reported problems as promptly as possible and can advise you when the trouble has been cleared up. Your help in letting us know of such problems will help us cleans things up more easily so as to eliminate them for other readers. Thanks in advance for your assistance.

On a related note some of our titles are currently not as user-friendly as we would like them to be. You may find that some of the files are too large to fit in a notetaker or that the title is not as searchable as it could be. In the coming months we will be reworking these titles to make them more user-friendly so please bear with us as we work to correct this situation. In addition we will make an effort to make more of our titles embosser-friendly as well. These titles will be labeled as such so do check their access pages as to the embosser-friendliness of these titles. Again thanks for your cooperation.

### Contributions

If you would like to make tax-deductible contributions to assist with the procurement of books for translation or to help with the maintenance of this library you can do so by sending them to the address listed below:
International Braille Research Center
1800 Johnson St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410)659-9314
E-mail: mgosse@prodigy.net