AUDIBLE BOOK CLUB
The aim of the Audible Book Club is to recruit large numbers of older people either to read and listen to new books or to revisit books they read in years past. Obviously audible books are ideally suited with visual impairment and people who are unable to reach their library but many people who can reach the library and can see to read enjoy listening to a well-read book.
By using the right technical equipment the book club can be more than simply reading and listening. There will be the opportunity to join a discussion with others.
In the one million and nine thousand people over sixty in the target population the aim would be to identify the two hundred thousand that had significant limitations of either vision or movement and recruit them all to the audible book club.
The target population are all those people who like reading with particular focus on those who are no longer able to reach a local library or read a book either on paper or online even when enlarging the font. It is planned that we have a number of book clubs, for example the Dickens book club or the Victorian history book club, or the science fiction book club or the Joanna Trollope book club or the Korean war book club Because people probably belong to just one book club it is proposed that there will be a daily reading. It will always be at the same time, 18:30pm for example but if an individual missed an episode they could catch up.
Priority will be given to helping people with hearing problems adapt the technology to allow them to participate
The aim of the Audible Book Club is to recruit large numbers of older people either to read and listen to new books or to revisit books they read in years past. Obviously audible books are ideally suited with visual impairment and people who are unable to reach their library but many people who can reach the library and can see to read enjoy listening to a well-read book.
By using the right technical equipment the book club can be more than simply reading and listening. There will be the opportunity to join a discussion with others.
In the one million and nine thousand people over sixty in the target population the aim would be to identify the two hundred thousand that had significant limitations of either vision or movement and recruit them all to the audible book club.
The target population are all those people who like reading with particular focus on those who are no longer able to reach a local library or read a book either on paper or online even when enlarging the font. It is planned that we have a number of book clubs, for example the Dickens book club or the Victorian history book club, or the science fiction book club or the Joanna Trollope book club or the Korean war book club Because people probably belong to just one book club it is proposed that there will be a daily reading. It will always be at the same time, 18:30pm for example but if an individual missed an episode they could catch up.
Priority will be given to helping people with hearing problems adapt the technology to allow them to participate