On Tuesday, June 23, I was at the LSU library to visit an exhibit they had on Braille, this being the bicentenary of Louis Braille's birth. I arranged to ride there and back with a friend and her driver as they had an errand to run and could drop me off. It was great seeing Peggy Chalaron, the librarian who helped organize the exhibit. She used some materials that I had given her when I was there as a student in the late 1990s. It seemed somewhat disconcerting being back. Things did not turn out exactly as...

David Faucheux is suspending his Blind Chance blog blog for health reasons mostly but also in part because of Odeo’s inability or refusal so far to restore his audios. Also, his Talkr text-to-speech service faded away. I thought I’d share his final post in TeleRead’s main part. I’d love to see David’s blog reborn at some point, ideally with help from a library-related site. – David Rothman. Readers to my combination audio and text blog may recall that day in early May 2004 when I began my cautious journey into the blogosphere. I can't say I...

Moderator's note: David Faucheux speaks and writes Blind Chance, an audio blog on the TeleRead site. His just-posted review of Cell, the new Stephen King novel, is of interest since the book is in Mobipocket, Adobe Reader, Palm Reader and Microsoft formats. Best price I found was at Diesel eBooks, $9.75. - DR. According to the intro material in Stephen King's bestselling Cell, there are over 193,000,000 cell phones in America. After you read Cell, you may wish to toss yours. At 3:03 p.m. EST, a mysterious pulse occurs and wipes the minds of all people with a cell phone. ...