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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
Until a couple of years ago, cassette tape was the standard format for books loaned by libraries for the blind. Today, the standard format is DAISY.
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umm, NO. the current format is NOT DAISY, it's some different digital format. Daisy players are NOT allowed to play the current digital downloads from the National Library for the Blind (at least in the USA). The only current players that can be authorized are one of two digital players provided by the service and one other, a Victor Stream Reader (which can be digitally authorized to read the NLS format books).
To my inspection, the files appear to be a drm wrapper around an mp3 file. The player can play a standard mp3, but needs them in a different file location format than the standard NLS formatted books.
There is a current experimental effort to convert from an Epub to a braille machine readable format, but I don't know how successful they've been.