theinternetarchive:

theinternetarchive:

print disabled access and the internet archive

to access books on the IA that have lost public rights (aka most of them) all you need to do is this:

Request to Verify Eligibility for Free Ebooks for the Print Disabled

Do you have a disability that interferes with reading printed text? Please fill out this form to get qualified for our program for print-dis

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fill out this self-reporting form, where it asks if you have a disability and are thus eligible for print disabled access.

what this form asks is if you have ever had accommodations during schooling, if you are mentally ill, have a physical disability, etc. and you submit it and in a few days you get access.

they do not ask for any sort of documentation or information, just say ‘i’m disabled’…they want to give it to you.

This isn’t stealing disabled resources or whatever btw. It’s a loophole they came up with after a lawsuit a few years back that said books couldn’t be publicly available to everyone (for copyright reasons). They want you to exploit this system because they wanted things to be free in the first place. The only downside is you can’t download pdfs directly and to download the epub you need conversion software. The in browser reader is really manageable tho ! Especially with an archive.org account where you can bookmark/list/favorite.