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News Note from TravelBraille.com:
TravelBraille.com has started a new series called 'Literature for Young Readers'. The first books in
the series, now available are:
Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl"
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Wind, Sand, and Stars and Flight to Arras by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
Zorba, The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
PaleHorse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Story of My Life and Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
This is London; Edward R. Murrow's wartime radio broadcast transcripts
several novels by Nobel Prize-Winners Jose Saramago and Garbriel Garcia-Marquez
Doctor Faustus by Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven – the book on which the
movie starring Humphrey Bogart was based.
… and more to follow.
Braille editions of these books will be made available under the ‘Visually Impaired Persons Act of
the United Kingdom, 2002’, or Section 31A of the UK Copyright Act as per:
"[7th November 2002] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: An Act to permit, without infringement of
copyright, the transfer of copyright works to formats accessible to visually impaired persons. "
The Braille transcriptions will be in fully-edited BRF file with proofreading from the original printed
edition – not from a scanned file. They will be transcribed by a U.S.A. Library of Congress
Certified Braille Transcriber. While perfection cannot be promised, the errors should be counted in
terms of ‘errors per volume’ as opposed to ‘errors per page’.
Travelbraille.com has received personal copyright waiver from the Pulitzer prize-winning poet
Gary Snyder to make BRF Braille transcriptions available of all his published works. This is
unprecedented for such an acclaimed author.
The following volumes by Gary Snyder are now available:
Earth House Hold
The Back Country
Riprap, and Cold Mountain Poems
Regarding Wave, and
Turtle Island, the 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Poetry
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Available also are several books from Gutenberg.org editions:
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
A Room with a view by E.M Forster
Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoyevsky
The writings of George Orwell including ‘Down and Out in Paris and
London’, ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ and Burmese Days.
All these BRF files have been edited by a Library of Congress Certified Transcriber…and are
available to any registered person, not just U.S. (USA) Citizens as under U.S. Copyright Act
Section 121. (Chafee Amendment)
Publications, and Brochures in BRF Braille Format... At NO cost to you... All work is provided by a
Library of Congress Certified Braille Transcriber.
For now, please request any books from the 'Contact Us' page until we modify the website--
please request only one book at a time...after filling out the short form on the register page.
Hopefully we are better at Braille transcription than at website programming.
Also, you can now reach us via SKYPE name: JAZZBO352
News Note from TravelBraille.com:
TravelBraille.com has started a new series called 'Literature for Young Readers'. The first books in
the series, now available are:
Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl"
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Wind, Sand, and Stars and Flight to Arras by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
Zorba, The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
PaleHorse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Story of My Life and Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
This is London; Edward R. Murrow's wartime radio broadcast transcripts
several novels by Nobel Prize-Winners Jose Saramago and Garbriel Garcia-Marquez
Doctor Faustus by Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven – the book on which the
movie starring Humphrey Bogart was based.
… and more to follow.
Braille editions of these books will be made available under the ‘Visually Impaired Persons Act of
the United Kingdom, 2002’, or Section 31A of the UK Copyright Act as per:
"[7th November 2002] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: An Act to permit, without infringement of
copyright, the transfer of copyright works to formats accessible to visually impaired persons. "
The Braille transcriptions will be in fully-edited BRF file with proofreading from the original printed
edition – not from a scanned file. They will be transcribed by a U.S.A. Library of Congress
Certified Braille Transcriber. While perfection cannot be promised, the errors should be counted in
terms of ‘errors per volume’ as opposed to ‘errors per page’.
Travelbraille.com has received personal copyright waiver from the Pulitzer prize-winning poet
Gary Snyder to make BRF Braille transcriptions available of all his published works. This is
unprecedented for such an acclaimed author.
The following volumes by Gary Snyder are now available:
Earth House Hold
The Back Country
Riprap, and Cold Mountain Poems
Regarding Wave, and
Turtle Island, the 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Poetry
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Available also are several books from Gutenberg.org editions:
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
A Room with a view by E.M Forster
Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoyevsky
The writings of George Orwell including ‘Down and Out in Paris and
London’, ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ and Burmese Days.
All these BRF files have been edited by a Library of Congress Certified Transcriber…and are
available to any registered person, not just U.S. (USA) Citizens as under U.S. Copyright Act
Section 121. (Chafee Amendment)
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