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The Country of the Blind
99% Invisible
The Implosion of the Talking Book
The definition of the book basically imploded right after these talking books started to be developed. The Cornell Ornithology Lab decided that they wanted to take some of their birdsong recordings and make a talking book for blind people out of them. There was no book, origin. They called it a book and they circulated it as a talking book, but it was a audio description of the images in an animated film with sound files from that film.
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