Diana Manister wrote:
> 
> Dear Carrol,
> 
> There are many sites online that provide audio versions of books. Some
> are even free!


So far we've spent about $7000 on hardware & software to expand text
and/or read it aloud, plus I paid a student $19 an hour to read Postone,
Time, Labor and Social Domination to me. I have PL & Emma on an
expensive device called Victor Reader Stream (only available I think to
the those with defective vision), plus access to the Library of Congress
audio books on tape for those with low vision plus commercial CDs of
Paradise Regained and Fitzgerald's translationof the Iliad. I have'nt
mastered the use of all this technology yet -- but even when I do, it
slows up 'reading' speed sufficiently to seriously hamper comprehension
of new material, hence still necessitating triage. And if I could devour
books through thse means as well as when I could read, I would still
have to give priority to a re-reading of _Strucure of Evolutionary
Theory_ and _Grundrisse_ plus  completing the reading (begun before
cash) of Stein's Makign of Americasn and Richardson's Clarissa. Samuel
Johnson said something like "Being sentenced to hang marvelously focuses
the mind." Ditto poor vision and approaching 80th birthday. ;->

Carrol