80 years of Talking Books
We’ve asked six children what they love about reading with their grandparents using Talking Books, braille and giant print. Find out what Ami, Kurtis, Isabella, Edward, Rosie and Leo say in the film below.
Our Talking Books are free!
RNIB’s Talking Book Service turned 80 in 2015 – and to celebrate, we made our service free. Since its humble beginnings in 1935, eight decades of innovation have made it the biggest and best service of its kind, bringing the gift of reading to blind and partially sighted people. There are more than 25,000 Talking Books to choose from – read by some of the world’s finest authors and acting talent – so sign up below and start exploring our library.
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The machines that bring books to life
Talking Book players through the ages.
Making books talk is no easy feat, but RNIB's efforts would be wasted without the proper machinery to play the resulting recordings.
The talking books that defined each decade
Eighty years of talking book classics.
The best books change our perspective on the world - books like the ones in our Talking Books library that are life-changing for our members.
