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March 14, 2006
Free Newspapers and Periodicals for Blind and Visually Impaired Readers
The following newspapers and periodicals are distributed free of charge to all blind and visually impaired readers:
Daily:
The New York Times (runs 250 to 350k usually) The Washington Post (same size to slightly larger)
Weekly:
- Mondays: the New Yorker running 225 to 375k.
- Tuesdays: Science Times and Health News (105 to 125k)
- Thursdays: Tech Update from the N Y Times and W Post
- Fridays: Slate, the Online magazine of News and Ideas (runs 350 to 425k)
- Saturdays:U S News and World Report (runs 160 to 200k usually)
- Sunday magazines ( N Y Times and W Post papers; runs 275 to 320k)
- Sundays: Book World and N Y Times Book Reviews (runs 275 to 375k)
All titles are available either as text in the body of an email message or as plain text attachments.
Why subscribe to these texts when it's likely you won't have time to read them all the way through? For the same reasons that sighted people subscribe to print newspapers and magazines with dozens of pages they'll never read, but just skim over. You get to choose to read only those news stories and articles that interest you. All items begin with this search term:
"_next article"
and you can simply read the headline and first few sentences of each item to see if you wish to jump forward to the next article or setle back and get the full story. So while a compilation can have dozens of articles you might choose to briefly note the headlines and opening paragraph of most items and read fully that 10 or 12 items of special interest to you.
The best way to find out aboutthese titles is to try a sample run of an issue or two, then cancel if you wish.
How to Subscribe
Write to Will Smith telling him which titles you wish to receive and if you are blind, visually impaired or dyslexic.
Posted by Nancy at March 14, 2006 01:27 PM