The easiest way to provide reading materials with machine-encoded text is to use digitally born files.
The Library has a collection of over 325,000 e-books and 31,000 e-journals, and is available to help finding appropriate materials. The Reference Librarians can quickly prepare bibliographic lists on demand which link directly to the e-books and the articles in the Library catalog. Here is a sample with introductory readings on Politics.
Write to referenceservices@johncabot.edu or contact directly your Liaison Librarian.
A few databases in the Library provide audible readings.
Audiobooks of general interest can be bought by the Library. Write to acquisitions@johncabot.edu
Free audiobook collections can be found in the Internet Archive
There are several platforms that provide digital textbooks to students (often as loans, with variable duration).
The Library can make purchases for texts of general interest. Contact acquisitions@johncabot.edu
There are various tools which can be used to turn scanned documents into text files which can then be read.
There are free ones online but often create illegible conversions.
The library has a specific scanner which handles conversion quite well using the ABBYY software. Contact the library for support at library@johncabot.edu.
