E-Books For Young Adults

If you have Kurzweil, then that would mean you don’t need E-books for titles when you can find the time to scan, right?

Did you talk to a librarian about recommendations? (Some love to try to figure out a book that will “connect” with a reader; others would rather be filing things — it’s worth asking :-))
Some of the books that have been popular with my middle schoolers are on my site at http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/bookreviews/index.asp - there are summaries & descriptions with them.

Have you checked out reading for the blind and dysleixic? (www.rfbd.org)

Thank you very much for your suggestions.
I had not heard of the blind/dyslexic website.
We are trying to reduce the amount of scanning needed.
50% of his school books for the coming year are not on CD-ROM.
We will be spending our time scanning those this summer.
Even with scanning, there are sometimes issues of having to reformat text.
I appreciate your suggestions and will do more research.
Have a great week.

Lynn,
If your son has a learning disability, (or other disability) he can subscribe to bookshare.org and have access to books that are scanned into that site. My son had to read To Kill a Mockingbird this year. It is still copyrighted and not in the public domain so the only place where we could access it as eText was at the bookshare.org website. We converted it to MP3 format and he read it with his iPod while he followed along in the book. He believes this method of reading has helped him increase his vocabulary and his confidence as a reader. Check it out at least to see what books are available that may interest your son.

I’m not sure what they have available at an early middle school reading level. I do know they have all the Harry Potter books. (They are also available at audible.com for about $19 per book.
Karen