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Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, and 2) compatibility with your reading tool. To learn more about using Bookshare with your device, visit the Help Center.

Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more information.

• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Day Camp

This story is about telling time to the hour.

Families Work and Play Together (Early Connections)

Hat Day at the Zoo

This story is about color words.

My Backpack

This story is about how a boy gets ready for school by loading his backpack with school supplies and snacks.

My Book

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Thanksgiving Then and Now

This book is about what Thanksgiving was like long ago and what Thanksgiving is like today.

All Work, No Play

This book is about children who lived long ago and how they had to work long days to help their families. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)

Gravity

This book is about the factors that contribute to gravity: mass of objects and distance between them.

Community Jobs: Set Of 6 (Early Connections)

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Growing Older

This book is about how you learn to talk, walk, play, jump, eat, sing, read, run draw, write, and paint.

Heat

This book is about how we get, use, and measure heat. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)

Life in the City

This book is about the daily life of a boy who lives in New York City. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)

Looking Into Space

This book is about space and the solar system.

Rules

This book is about the rules that both students and adults follow to maintain a safe, healthy, fun lifestyle.

Sounds

This book is about the different types of sounds and how sound is created.

Light

This book is about sources of light such as the sun, stars, and fire.

My Time Box

This book is about celebrations in China, Gambia, England, India, and the United States. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guides and Comprehension Question Card)

Our Sun

This book is about the properties of the sun.

Peaches All the Time

In Peaches All The Time, students learn that peaches need water to grow-but not too much. They also learn about irrigation. Students study how the quantity of peaches available for sale makes a difference in the cost.

Technology Today

This book is about the benefits of modern technology.

Then and Now

This book is about the similarities between generations of people.

What Pushes? What Pulls?

This book is about the difference between pushing and pulling, and how force moves things from one place to another.

Ellen Ochoa

Read about the life of Ellen Ochoa.

Jacques Cousteau

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Make a Sundial

Learn how to make a sundial.