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class="wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained"> <p>People with reading barriers face numerous challenges. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired, 90% of whom live in developing countries. An even higher number of people have dyslexia or a language-based learning disability that makes it difficult or impossible to read printed text. UNESCO has reported that if all students in low income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty, equivalent to a 12% cut in world poverty.</p> <p><strong>Bookshare庐 is an ebook library that makes reading easier.</strong> Members can access a huge collection of ebooks and <em>read their way </em>with the most customizable ebooks for people with reading barriers. <a href="/bookshare-library/">See how Bookshare ebooks work</a>.</p> <p>The library has聽over 1.3 million titles and is the most extensive collection of accessible ebooks in the world. It includes books for school, career, and reading pleasure, as well as titles in over 40 languages. The collection is supported by partnerships with over 1,000 US and international publishers and a dedicated volunteer community.</p> <p>Bookshare operates in the U.S. under a copyright exemption鈥攖he Chafee Amendment鈥攚hich grants nonprofit organizations the ability to make books available to people with print disabilities without publisher permission.聽Bookshare receives publisher permission to provide books to members outside the US.</p> <p>Thanks to funding from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Bookshare is free for all qualified US students and schools. Bookshare鈥檚 current funding award from the Department of Education is also referred to as the DREAM (Delivering Revolutionary Equitable and Accessible Materials) Center. Qualified individuals who are not students pay a nominal annual fee for their membership, including reduced fees in some countries outside the US.聽<a href="/sign-up/">Learn about membership fees</a>.</p> <p>Bookshare is an initiative of <a href="http://benetech.org/">Benetech</a>, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good.</p> </div></div> </div></main><footer class="wp-block-template-part"> <div class="wp-block-group has-white-color has-deep-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-27822acb42fab19b5f92b8f28d1cc592 has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-10 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)"> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 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