A Solution For Visually Challenged Readers
I know a lot of people who love to read, also have some visual challenges. And audio books aren’t cheap - not by a long shot. There are some options online but some of them are pretty pricey as well. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a library of audio books for a reasonable price each month?
I found the perfect solution. It was a moment of pure serendipity. Picture someone stumbling into a doorway and falling flat on their face in the entry hall. That is, in a cyber-kind-of way what happened to me. The Web site is called JiggerBug. It is to audio books, what Netflix is to films.
There are three plans. One allows you to have one audio book at a time. A second plan allows for two at a time, plus a downloadable audio book every 14 days, and another plan allows for five audio books at a time, plus two free instant downloads every 14 days. These are very reasonably priced plans - you can keep the CDs or tapes as long as you need to and it is all postage paid. And there is a two week trial - what more could you need?
Just like Netflix, they have a queue. So I have selected about a dozen books and they will come to me one after the other, as I return them. I chose the two at a time plan; my plan is to be reading one while the other is in transit.
They have classics, plays, genre fiction, popular fiction, nonfiction… you name it and they have it. And if they don’t, they’ll try to get it for you via a convenient request form.
I am thrilled. I love to knit, which is why I am usually hanging out at Hankering For Yarn, my primary blog. And there are times I want to read but I can’t do both! Movies I can at least listen to, but I have a HUGE stack of books to read. Now I can knit and read simultaneously. I have been doing the happy dance ever since I found JiggerBug.
April 2nd, 2006 at 8:29 pm
[…] I found a wonderful solution today for visually challenged (or multitasking) readers. Now if you want to knit and read a book at the same time, you can! I have been having some vision challenges lately - partly because I need new glasses and partly because… well who knows why, but I was thrilled to find this. I spend enough time staring at the computer. I like the idea of sitting back, closing my eyes and listening to the books I have so wanted to read. My first one is “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” […]