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Disability Support in the Library

RNIB Bookshare (Royal National Institute for the Blind)

This service is available to students with a visual impairment. Please email informationspecialists@plymouth.ac.uk for further details.

The RNIB Bookshare provides textbooks and materials to support the UK curriculum. They offer a range of accessible formats that can be read electronically or adapted to suit the personal reading needs of learners.  They now have 739,263 titles with more being added all the time.  

RNIB Bookshare lets you:

  • Listen to books with high quality text-to-speech voices
  • Hear and see highlighted words on screen
  • Read with digital braille or enlarged fonts
  • Create physical braille or large print
  • Read directly from your Internet browser

Alternative Formats - Sensus Access

For Sensus Access, our alterntive formats conversion tool, please see our Tech For Learning guide