Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Read How You Want

Read How You Want Founder Christopher Stephen has degrees in Mathematics, Physics, Economics and Law from the University of Sydney. Starting as an interest in finding ways to help his sister continue to enjoy reading as the effects of her multiple sclerosis progressed, Read How You Want has developed into a unique company that offers the capability to print documents and books in all kinds of individualized formats, including large and atypical print formats, braille, audio and e-books.

Listen to an interview with Melinda on LD Live!



3 comments:

Peyton Stafford said...

Hi Melinda,

I work with Chris on the library and institutional services side at Read How You Want, and I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your interview with him. I felt like you really "got" what he is about and what RHYW is doing. I live near Portland, Oregon, so perhaps we will run into each other sometime at an education or technology conference.

-Peyton Stafford

Melinda said...

Hi Peyton - thanks so much! Yes- hope we meet up sometime, and glad that RHYW is working with libraries - etc.

I really hope all people can access print and I find working with all types of readers, that either changing the format and/or providing multiple sensory input really can make reading enjoyable.

Peyton Stafford said...

Hi Melinda,

Yes, we plan to do a lot with libraries. We will be transcribing books into Braille for the Library of Congress NLS, which should multiply the number of titles available from them each year to about 6,000. Currently, they can only produce 600. We are also about to go into production of Print-On-Demand editions in our accessible fonts. It's all very exciting and very technology-driven.

Thanks, again, for the great interview you gave Chris.

-Peyton Stafford