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Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more information.

• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Tales from Percy's Park: One Snowy Night (PDF)

Percy the Park Keeper helps his animal friends in this popular story from highly-regarded, best-selling author-illustrator Nick Butterworth. Percy the Park Keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter's night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food and he must find a way to help them find a warm place to sleep for the night. Percy's hut is nice and warm but Percy discovers that if you invite one animal in you'll have to invite them all in and his hut is only small - it's certainly going to be a squash!

Image, Music, Text

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

Image, Music, Text (PDF)

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals

The definitive edition of Darwin's classic -- a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behaviour, reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.

Bugsy Malone

Pathways to Literacy, Year 4, Stage 5, Set B: Baboushka (PDF)

Christmas is such a busy time! Cleaning, cooking, making, mending... Those were the things that kept Baboushka busy. So she missed her chance to travel with the wise men. Then she found a way to bring Christmas love to everyone. A traditional tale of warmth and wisdom.

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 1

Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy

In Wicklow And West Kerry

The Aran Islands

Here is the complete title: Collected Plays and Poems and The Aran Islands

The Parenticide Club

Monsieur Lecoq

Percy Bysshe Shelley

How Tell a Story and Others

The Humorous Story an American Development. Its Difference from Comic and Witty Stories.

For Whom Shakespeare Wrote

The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau

Essays Before A Sonata

In the Wilderness

Hospital Sketches

Washington Irving

The Civilization of Illiteracy

As We Go

Balzac

From Ritual to Romance

An examination and investigation of the Arthurian legends and "the Grail Problem."