The bane of my existence ebook reader may have actually died

When I went to use it last night, it had been charging for a couple of hours and it was uncomfortably hot. It cooled down after I removed it from the power adapter, and seemed to work fine. After a couple of hours of using it, I realized that it hadn't crashed in two or three days.

And that's about the time it stopped playing.

I pressed the play button, and it read. A sentence. And stopped.

And that's what it did for the est of the night, until I got frustrated and powered it off.

This morning it refuses to play at all.

And thus ends the less than a month long existence of a five hundred dollar piece of assistive tech, may it rest in book Hell.

What do you think book Hell is like? Personally, I think it is filled with an infinite number of copies of The Da Vinci Code in every format. And that's the only book on the shelves. And there are a couple of demons who never turn off the ringers on their phones, and the ring tones are all versions of Bon Jovi songs.

Spreading the word about Bookshare.org

I just received a very nice email from an academic scholar who I contacted earlier today with a request that she consider adding her book to Bookshare.org.

So this is just a reminder to readers who use Bookshare: if you find a book you would really love to read, and it isn't already in Bookshare, consider contacting the author or publisher and asking them to add that book to the Bookshare collection. I usually try to contact the author first, because most are thrilled to hear from someone who wants to read their book, and to find out that there is a way to make their books accessible to PWD.

Many writers and publishers still don't know about Bookshare, so in my emails I usually include a link to the Bookshare page describing how authors can get their books added to the library
https://www.bookshare.org/cms/partners/authors

Visual cortex in young blind children adapts to respond to spoken language

At an adult level, and before they are old enough to learn to read braille. Could this imply that people who are born blind are intellectually inclined to be storytellers? Could all those blind bards and poets be a product as much of nature as of nurture?
https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/08/18/brain-vision-center-adaptability/