Not being able to read books causes quite a few problems when they are not available digitally. Publishers are required to provide an accessible copy of a book to the visually impaired, however this rarely happens in an acceptable timeframe. I have been waiting for one book for university for 2 months now, so if this was term time I would of been 2/3 of the way through the term. So I would be falling way behind. So how do I solve this problem.
I will give a brief outline here then in subsquent posts break it down into further detail on how to do each step.
It all starts with buying the book you want to scan and going to a friendly print shop. I get the spine of the book removed. Now some print shops can get a little funny with this as they appear to care about the publishers copyrights. All you need to do is highlight that copyright law actually allows a visually impaired person to do anything they want to a book in order to make it accessible for them. the RNIB even have a section on their website dedicated to this.