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makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Bookshare is free for qualified U.S. students.

is the largest source of educational books on tape in the world. The books in its collection begin at the kindergarten level and continue up through graduate school and beyond, and run the full range of subject matter. If a book of an educational or professional nature is not already in Learning Ally’s audiocassette library or the NLS collection, a registered borrower may ask Learning Ally to record it.

and both offer ebooks options that are accessible for many books. Chegg has a built-in read aloud feature that can be used via app or on a computer.

Integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing of notes. Handwriting features allow for easy annotation and you can even prevent unwanted marks with a palm rest. Includes advanced word-processing and you can link audio recordings. Additional features include auto-syncing (to Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, iCloud), media inserts, and library organization.

• Price: $7.99 (iPad, iPhone); $5.99 (Mac)

This app combines functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful note-taking tool. Synchronize handwritten and typed notes with audio, add notes later, highlights notes during playback, review notes in iTunes. AudioNote automatically indexes your meetings, lectures, or study sessions.

• Price: $4.99, $2.99 (iPad, iPhone, Mac), $19.95 (Windows), $5.99 (Android)

This app allows you to keep track of files across devices, take text notes, dictate audio notes, capture pictures, create to do lists, record voice reminders and audio notes, share notes easily, and index these notes by searchable key words.

• Price: Free (Premium ranges from $4.99 to $99.99) (iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android)

This app allows you to type, hand write, draw, and clip things from the web to get down your thoughts into your notebook. OneNote is set up like a notebook to bring the familiar physical 3-ring binder to the digital era. Easily use sections and pages to separate out thoughts by theme at school, home or work. OneNote syncs your notes across all devices and lets multiple people work on the content together, at the same time.

• Price: Free (Windows, Android)

With Simplenote you can take basic notes and upload them to a Web account or sync them with your computer. There is no audio support with this app.

• Price: Free (iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows, Android, Kindle Fire, Linux)

SoundNote is the best way to take notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. It tracks what you type and draw while recording audio, so you'll never worry about missing an important detail. During playback, just tap a word: SoundNote will jump right to the proper time in the audio.

• Price: $4.99 (iPad, Mac)

Read&Write Gold

Award-winning Read&Write gives extra confidence to students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties. It’s also a big confidence booster for English Language Learners, and anyone who needs a little extra help with their reading and writing. Read&Write makes the web, documents and files more accessible. It’s a friendly, intuitive toolbar that assists students at all levels with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.

• Price: Free for Students (Mac, Windows, iPad)

This app displays purchased books in full color and layout like the publisher intended. You can sync books to multiple devices. Books can be read aloud by a text-to-speech voice and words highlighted (which requires purchase). You can search unfamiliar words or topics through the web without leaving the book you are reading. You can also choose the way in which you read the book. You can access books from the Blio bookstore or use iTunes to transfer your purchased EPUB, PDF, or XPS formats, via iTunes or the web.

• Price: FREE + $9.99 for text-to-speech feature
• Languages: English

This is a pdf reader with advanced reading and annotating capabilities. You can transfer files through the USB connection or via wi-fi. This app also supports large PDF and TXT files, but can also work with MS Office files, iWork, HTML and Safari web archives, images, and audio and video. You can also use the 50x zoom without distorting the text or images!

• Price: $4.99
• Languages: English

Become a member of Learning Ally if you have documented reading accessibility difficulties. Then access the downloadable DAISY-formatted audiobooks. This app allows you to navigate audiobooks using chapters and page numbers, adjust reading speed, use bookmarks, and voiceover.

• Price: Free (must be a Learning Ally member for $99 a year or 30 days risk free trial)
• Languages: English

Android version of the Learning Ally Application (see above).

• Price: Free
• Languages: English

Download and read bestselling books from the iBookstore and browse through your library on your device. Tap a book to open it and swipe through by tapping. You can bookmark and add notes to your favorite pages. Some books come with audio and additional interactive features. You can also sample books before purchasing. You can also add PDF documents from your mail or add them to iTunes and sync them to your device. You can use the accessibility features that are built-in with your device through this app.

• Price: Free
• Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Catch documents from any source: PC or MAC computers, web sites, email attachments, iDisk, Dropbox and other online file storages and even iPhones. It is a PDF viewer that lets you copy files, read office documents, save email attachments, share files, read books on the go, transfer files to an iPhone with or without wi-fi, save documents, and access other storage sources.

• Price: $4.99
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish

Download eBooks, connect with Facebook and Twitter, read online content through website and blogs, add books from Safari, iTunes, Mail, Dropbox, or MobileMe iDisk, look up information on Google, get newspaper and magazine subscriptions, choose font style and text, put in night mode, create personal bookshelves, and add notes as you read. You can also access notes and highlights made on othe