“It changed my afternoons! I have always read a lot. When my eyesight started to really fail and I realized I wasn't going to be able to do it anymore, it was like my world was falling apart.” Marcelle is over 90 years old, lives in an establishment for the elderly and almost every day, she enjoys a moment of reading. Almost like before.
“I'm reading at the moment Olympe de Gougesshe smiled. It was thanks to one of my former neighbors that I learned about the sound library. His great-grandson uses it too. He’s dyslexic.” “‘I read’, that’s the term audioreaders use,” smiles Michel Planquette, secretary of the Limoges sound library. Reading has become possible again thanks to voice donors, who record audiobooks of all kinds. Novels, essays, history Books…
At the Limoges Sound Library, the drawer units are full of index cards. There are 3,200 book titles there
. Looking more closely, we realize that here, there are no books, but CDs, on which the books recorded for the members of the association, people “prevented from reading” are stored. . Visually impaired people, dyslexic children, people of all ages with a disability that does not allow them to read.
Claudine regularly reads and monitors the frequency line on her computer.
