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Books for the Blind

4809 Avenue N

Brooklyn, NY 11234

(347) 701-7757

JohnHeller@BooksForTheBlind.us

Agency code: BFTB

Incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in New York in 1995, we started out transcribing utility bills for large utility companies.

With additional experienced staffing and equipment our policy now is to accept a maximum of 30,000 ink pages annually, which is about 83 textbooks.

Our Braille pages always have the corresponding ink print.

The only way we can give you a price on new work is for you to mail the book to us. Before cutting the spine from the book for scanning, we will tell you the price. We will begin the work only after you approve the price and tell us to proceed with the order.

Our large print comes in a print size from 18 to 22 points. We also offer different colored paper - white, cream, lilac, and blue. One visually impaired person told us that print on the lilac paper was easier for him to see. Most people, however, prefer the cream color. White is usually the second choice. If you need to see samples, please call or e-mail us.

If your monitor's resolution is 1024 X 768 pixels, then this print is about 22 point, Arial font. It does not show the actual word and letter spacing, which is considerably more than normal. The majority of our customers chose this size. (For your information, a point is 1/72 of an inch. 18 points equals 18/72 or 1/4 inch and 72 points equals 1 inch.)