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Resources For the Blind and Visually Impaired

The Reading Edge

  • A completely integrated unit that incorporates a scanner, speech synthesizer and speaker.
  • Choice of nine reading voices.
  • Adjustable reading rate.
  • Can read books, magazines, documents.
  • Scanned documents can be saved to disk.
  • Also reads Spanish language materials

The Telesensory Chroma PLUS

  • A closed circuit TV system that magnifies anything you want to read or write.
  • Read mail and pay bills in privacy.
  • Read newspapers and magazines, write letters and checks.
  • Read medicine bottles.
  • Enjoy photo albums and much more...

The Reading Edge and The Telesensory Chroma PLUS are both located at the Main Library.

The Library also has Large Print Books, audiobooks on tape and compact disc, and descriptive videos.

The Braille Institute of Los Angeles offers many services for the visually impaired, including the Talking Books program, available to residents of the South Bay.

llllllllllllllllllllllllllLarge Print Books

Finding it difficult to read the fine print? Our collection of adult large print books makes reading “easy on the eyes” with print several sizes larger than regular print. The collection offers a variety of large print books to satisfy all reading tastes. Bestseller fiction, romances, mysteries, westerns and suspense books are available, as well as a number of nonfiction books and biographies. Browse the collection or search on our computer for specific titles. “Large Print” will be indicated in the computer entry for individual titles, or search under the subject heading “Large Print” to see a list of all large print titles included. Large print can bring the joy, and comfort, back into reading.


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