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Large Print
Description
Large Print is traditionally type that is larger than in the standard edition of a book—making it easier for visually impaired people to read. However, ReadHowYouWant has taken large print to a new level—each large print edition has been optimized for maximum readability by adjusting spacing between characters and lines, and decreasing hyphenation. Furthermore, ReadHowYouWant offers five sizes of EasyRead® large print in 16pt, 16pt bold, 18pt, 20pt, and 24pt. Readers can browse and sample the different sizes, and choose the format that is best for them. ReadHowYouWant’s goals are to make reading easier and more enjoyable by delivering formats that suit the reader, and to give people with reading difficulties access to books in the formats of their choice—at an affordable price, and as soon as the book is published.

Braille

On-Line Braille store is now open

The Research and Production team at ReadHowYouWant has invested considerable time and energy to developing systems for creating Braille files that are:

  • Accurate
  • Low cost
  • Available quickly, and in most cases at the same time as the materials are published
  • Adequately contracted, so that it has an acceptable length

The process is done in three stages:

  • Checking is done prior to Braille conversion – the text is checked to make sure it is accurate. The XML file is also checked to ensure it is accurately marked up into XML.
  • The text is converted to Braille.
  • The Braille is formatted.

ReadHowYouWant is developing a house style for Braille that can support automated transcription while maintaining accuracy.

Braille Samples
US Literary Format

"The Book of Tea" in two Volumes

ASCII Braille files

Visual Braille files

US Text Format

ASCII Braille files

Visual Braille files

GENERAL TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

These books are transcribed using the Carnegie Mellon Dictionary, and only the words found in it are contracted. Therefore any place names, foreign words, proper names, company names, and trademarks not in this dictionary are not contracted. Words which are not in the dictionary and could be pronounced differently in different countries are not contracted either. Words in the Braille text are not split across lines at line ends because this makes reading more difficult, it may exclude newer Braille readers and the benefits in terms of page reduction are minimal. A book which is originally in British English will not be edited into American English so it will be Brailled as it is in print. In the print edition, if any word has been hyphenated at the end of a line for typesetting reasons, we will remove the hyphens in any of these words. If a joined contraction occurs across a page break, it will be put on the following page e.g. if "to" is on one page and "the" is on the next--the contracted "to" will be attached to "the" on the next page. If words are capitalized in the beginning of a chapter or section, we have purposely left the words capitalized because we have located some instances where it could be misleading to present these words in lower case. Making the decision will require manual intervention which will be expensive, and may require knowledge of the content that the editor may not have. The dividing of a book into volumes is being done automatically. The process works but the place chosen to start the next volume can be improved and will be addressed in a later version of the software.