Few years ago, this alluring thought was nothing but an idealistic dream floating in thin air.
Digitalisation is the means.
With a view to being abreast of the technological development, DBB has decided to make the year 2000 the start of a complete change of technology, designed to take the crucial step from the analogue technology of the past to the digital world of today. Hitherto, the prominent media have been Braille and conventional talking books, media which have severely limited the number of texts that can be made available to the blind, partially sighted and dyslexic, to only a tiny fraction of the world's enormous volumes of printed material. The talking book, as we know it today, is a voluminous box with several cassettes to be played on a conventional cassette recorder. The talking book also requires extensive shelf space. Copying and sending it is time-consuming, and users may find themselves spending a considerable amount of time searching for a specific quote.