Hi Tony, Joe, Eleanor and list:
I’m subscribed to the RNIB Talking Newspaper Service. (Usual RNIB contact
number.) I pay the equivalent of £39 annually for four magazines, including the
Irish Times edition. (It is an edited version. Probably somewhere between a
quarter and a half of the full daily newspaper. It doesn’t include the various
Supplements, which are available via Irish Times digital subscriptions.) In
addition to the above, I have password-controlled download access to any of the
TN publications RNIB distribute. (These Include The Lancet, Nature, New
Scientist, The Guardian (not the online edition that we ‘know and love’); and
several other more regional publications if one wants them.
The free iPhone offer is limited to the reading of twenty articles per week, in
much the same way that one is limited to reading ten articles per seven days on
one’s individual computer. There is a lot of stuff between those that doesn’t
make it into the RNIB (or edited) organ which they are allowed to redistribute.
So, let’s say that you own both a computer and an iPhone. (There may also be an
Android edition; or at least, there should be one.) But for those who have both
a smartphone and a PC, they could have thirty Irish Times articles per week for
free. (This to my mind, could cover several of the behind-the-headlines stories
and other opinion pieces that one may be interested in.)
To summarise on the RNIB ‘talking newspapers’, (delivered predominantly by
email now), I would say that best value is got by subscribing to more than one.
From: Tony Sweeney
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 12:17 PM
To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vip_students] Re: irish times
As a matter of interest are you using Talkback?
I was only commenting re Windows access just to clarify now.
Tony Sweeney.
On 11/04/2016 12:13, Eleanor burke wrote:
I access Irish Times newspaper on my iPhone with no difficulty whatsoever.
On 11 Apr 2016, at 11:25, Tony Sweeney <tonymsweeney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The digitall Irish Times is it that may not be accessible I guess.
There is discussion over on the access UK list re the RNIB talking
newspapers but that is a different matter.
I could be wron but think It's only about 50 GBP PA for the service.
Cheers,
Tony.
On 11/04/2016 11:13, Joe Bollard (Redacted sender EVERTON274 for DMARC)
wrote:
thanks tony, i was speaking with a friend over the weekend and he doesn't
think it is too accessible, however he is going to come back to me on it, many
thanks for your interest, god bless, travel safely, joe.
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