The people ordering a book by telephone are recognized by the system through their telephone number. If that doesn’t work the system will ask the user for their zip code, house number and unique membership number. Stating the book number is then enough to order it. The numbers are in the printed catalogs of the Counter. Participants receive the book at home within five business days.
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The blind and partially blind will find the world a lot easier. The amount of companies that offers it’s information spoken will explode; after all, brands will enter a spoken dialogue. Currently they’re specifically ordering Braille books, but ordinary books can be read when they’re in the library, or even at home from their cell phone. Soon they’ll be able to wear glasses which only enlarge the letters they’re looking at, or glasses which automatically read what they’re looking at, reads the book in front of them, or just reads aloud without a book that you listen to directly and continue where you left off last time. No more need for a cd. Just say ‘tell me’.
But that doesn’t go for just the blind. Discoveries like these will offer people in illiterate countries unknown possibilities to develop themselves. Without being able to read or even learning to read And brands that facilitate them.