Calibre Audio is a national charity who provide audiobooks to people affected by any form of print disability. We have 17,000 books in 70 categories and new titles are added every week. Members have a choice of how to listen: digital streaming, download or USB memory stick.
A print disability is a difficulty or inability to read printed material due to a perceptual, physical or visual disability, or learning difference, and includes:
· Visual impairment
· Dyslexia
· Autism
· ADD/ADHD
· Long COVID
· MS
· MND
· Chronic fatigue
· Cancer related cognitive disorder
· Other physical and neurological conditions
Our service is completely free for younger members under the age of 25 and living in the UK. Our aim is to encourage as many eligible young people as possible to join us and use audiobooks to support their health, wellbeing and relaxation. We hope that it will also have a positive impact on their education.
Our collection is full of leading contemporary children’s authors, including Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, J.K Rowling, Malorie Blackman, David Walliams, Phillip Pullman – as well as classics. We also keep up to date with titles that support the GCSE, A Level and PSHE national curriculum.
We provide audiobooks to anyone with a print disability, which is any difficulty or inability to read printed material due to a perceptual, physical or visual disability, or learning difference. Our members can choose how they listen to their audiobooks (digital streaming, download or USB player) and where they listen to them - in their own home or on the go. New members can sign up online: https://my.calibre.org.uk/sign-up or by calling 01296 432339.