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BRF (Digital Braille) Bookshare.org accepts submissions of BRF files, so if you have access to carefully proofread BRF files, we welcome you to submit them as the quality will likely be better than what the Bookshare.org software automatically generates for its downloadable BRF files.
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Bookshare Passes 150,000 Student Members & 125,000 Titles, Wins New Award -- I kid JimF that he is originally from Chicago and has this McDonalds numbers complex: Bookshare Millions Served
My real concerns regarding Bookshare.org are two-fold: 1. I believe that any one who legally and legitimately receives Braille BRF file materials in the USA should be allowed to have that file in the best quality Braille possible and that no contractual agreement with the provider of such material should prevent the Braille reader from obtaining that end. 2. I think that some of the Bookshare.org efforts at the WIPO SCCR sessions along with other well-meaning organizations have become counter-productive to the end such that materials in accessible formats at least in Braille can be more widely reproduced and distributed on a world-wide basis. All one has to do is read the recent WIPO SCCR interventions by some of the groups including Bookshare.org who were involved in drafting the original WBU/Brazil SCCR18_5 Treaty Proposal. Those in favor of a binding international Treaty believe that there is some mandate either in the Universal Declaration of Human rights or the UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities that compels the adoption of such a Treaty. Those who oppose such a Treaty do not seem to agree.