January 2003 • Volume 4 • Number 1

In This Issue . . .

Editor's Page, print edition page 3

A New Page That Speaks Volumes, print edition page 6

This article presents an overview of Bookshare.org, a repository for thousands of books scanned by volunteers — Deborah Kendrick

The Novel Experience of Reading: A Review of OPENBook and Kurzweil 1000, print edition page 12

This Product Evaluation reviews the Kurzweil 1000 version 7.0 from Kurzweil Educational Systems and Freedom Scientific's OPENBook version 6.0—the two most popular adapted optical character recognition (OCR) packages — Jay Leventhal and Koert Wehberg

Books on Tape Without the Tape! print edition page 19

Audible.com is a web site that converts audio books and other spoken audio programs into digital files. This article describes how to become a member and how to navigate the site and download material — Jim Kutsch

Are We There Yet? Another Look at the MobilePal+GPS, print edition page 24

This Product Evaluation presents the results of re-testing the MobilePal+GPS by RemoteMDX, a cell phone-based GPS system — Mark Uslan, Darren Burton, Jim Denham, and Kevin Dusling

You Can Bank on It: Features, Technology, and Locations of Talking ATMs, print edition page 32

This article on Talking Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) gives an overview of how they work and how you can find machines in your area — Lainey Feingold

Seek and You Shall Find: Using Specific Search Engines, print edition page 40

This article evaluates specific search engines for accessibility, including Seti-Search, an engine designed to be speech-friendly — Lynn Zelvin

News, print edition page 46

Calendar, print edition page 47

Entire Issue

Editor in Chief	Jay Leventhal
Contributing Editors	Paul Schroeder, Senior Editor Crista Earl Deborah Kendrick Mark M. Uslan
Executive Editor	Sharon Harrigan

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Photo on cover: Vita Zavoli using a Talking ATM.

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