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Talking Pages is now mailing out audio books every 3 to 4 weeks on a mailing date that is listed on our web site. On that date, we mail all the books requested since the last mailing date (up to a total of 10 audio books checked out per user). Users do not have to request books all at one time – any books requested between mailings will be shipped on the next mailing date.
Next Mailing Date:
June 10, 2013

▪ We are grateful to two recent donors, who provided 30 audio books on CDs, many of them by John Grisham and Peter Straub (March 2013).

▪ Many thanks to a repeat donor who provided 12 recent audio books on CDs, including many mysteries and thrillers. (January 2013).

▪ Our thanks go to three donors who donated a total of 15 audio books (November and December 2012).

▪ We are very grateful to two current users, each of whom made a generous donation of $100 to Talking Pages. (October and December 2012)

We want to thank two repeat donors who gave 17 audio books to Talking Pages during the first half of 2012. (June 2012)

▪ We are very grateful to a current user who made a generous donation of $100 to Talking Pages. (April 2012)

▪ During 2011, we received generous cash donations from several users and other friends of Talking Pages. (December 2011)

▪ We are very grateful to a current user who recently donated eleven audio books on CDs to the library. (December 2011)

▪ We want to thank a current user who recently donated many of her own audio books to the library. (November 2011)

▪ We have recently added books to the catalog that were purchased with cash donations from several users. (November 2011)

▪ We would like to recognize the donations of four generous donors who gave well over 100 books to the library, most on CDs. (March 2011)

▪ We have added 20 audio books, including many unabridged ones, due to a generous donation to the library. (January 2011)

▪ During 2010, we received donations of over 50 audio books and multiple cash donations from generous donors. (December 2010)

▪ During the second half of 2009, we received donations of over 100 audio books from three friends of the library. (December 2009)

▪ We have added 53 audio books, including many unabridged ones by Dean Koontz, due to the generous donation of a friend of the library. (August 2009)

▪ As of July 2009, Talking Pages has moved from Watchung NJ to Greenwich CT.

We want to thank several repeat donors who have given over 70 audio books and cash donations to Talking Pages during 2009. (July 2009)

Talking Pages received a donation of $25.00 through a web-based service that unfortunately did not identify the name or email address of the donor. We would like to thank the person who made this kind donation. (October 2008)

We want to thank four donors - all prior donors - who generously gave over 100 audio books to the library during the summer (September 2008).

▪ Over the past few months, we have added over 50 audio books to the library thanks to the generous donations of three friends of the library (June 2008).

We have added ten new titles on CD to the library, thanks to the generous donation of a friend of the library. (February 2008)

We want to thank two generous donors who recently gave 20 audio books, including many new titles on CD, to the library. (February 2008)

We have added 59 audio books to the library, thanks to the generous donations of 4 friends of the library over the past two months. (December 2007)

Over the past several months, we have received donations totaling more than 80 audio books from 3 generous donors. (October 2007)

We have added 45 new audio books, many of them new Mysteries and Thrillers, thanks to the generous donations of several friends of the library. (January 2007)

We have added 44 audio books to the library, thanks to the generous donations of 3 friends of the library. (May 2006)

▪ The library has acquired 8 new audio books on CD, primarily in the Mystery & Thrillers category. (May 2006)

Talking Pages is increasing the number of books a user can borrow at one time from 2 audio books to 4 audio books, effective immediately (February 20, 2006).

Effective January 1, 2006, Talking Pages will send out and receive in return its audio books as “Free Matter for the Blind and Other Physically Handicapped Persons.” Please click on the Certification page for more information on what is needed for you to be certified as a user of Talking Pages.

We have added 60 new audio books, many of them new Mysteries and Thrillers, thanks to the generous donations of 4 friends of the library. (January 2006)

Effective January 1, 2006, Talking Pages will send out and receive in return its audio books as “Free Matter for the Blind and Other Physically Handicapped Persons.” Please click on the Free Matter page for more information on what is needed for you to be certified as a user of Talking Pages as of January 1, 2006. (December 2005)

Talking Pages was featured on WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News on August 23, 2005. A new copy of The Da Vinci Code on tape was generously donated by a viewer of the news report.  (August 2005)

We have received a generous donation of new books on CD from Audio Renaissance, including ones by Janet Evanovich, Ben Bova, Orson Scott Card, Robert Ludlum, and Frederick Forsyth - we hope our visitors will consider purchasing audio books from this publisher. (August 2005)

We have added about 50 new audio books, thanks to the generous donation of a friend of the library. (May 2005)

At the request of one of our users, we have added a new page with a printer-friendly version of our catalog. This page offers the same pages to select a subset of the audio books by category, media, and availability. (March 2005)

Talking Pages has received 19 new audio books, through the generous donation of one user and one friend of the library. (March 2005)

We have added 51 new audio books, thanks to a generous donation. These represent the fourth donation of books of one of our users. (February 2005)

We would like to acknowledge the generous donation of audio books and over $500 from members of the Pingry School community. (January 2005)

Our library has 50 new audio books due to the generous donation of one of our users and a supporter of the library - 13 of the books are on CDs, most of which are unabridged. (January 2005)

We have added 36 audio books to the catalog, thanks to a generous donation by members of Trinity United Church of Warren, NJ. (November 2004)

Four copies of Kill the Messenger - 2 abridged and 2 unabridged - have been added to our catalog, thanks to a generous donation. (August 2004)

We have updated the Catalog page so that you can view audio books in the catalog by whether they are abridged or unabridged. This feature can be used in combination with the other choices on that page. (July 2004)

As of July 16, 2004, our Terms and Conditions have been updated concerning the Delivery and Return of Borrowed Audio Books.

We have added over 500 new titles to our library (June 2004). These audio books were donated to Talking Pages by another non-profit organization that serves the visually impaired and was no longer able to lend out books. Many thanks to our kind benefactor!

▪ The images in our catalog now include alternative text to better identify that the photos serve as hyperlinks to more information about the books on the amazon.com web site.

Another Amazon bookseller has kindly donated three new titles to our catalog.

Thanks to the generosity of two Amazon booksellers, we have added three new titles to our catalog, Marrying Mom, Local Rules, and Murder at the Library of Congress.

We have just added 16 audio books to the catalog, for a total of 72  books that have been added thanks to the generosity of three of our users, who donated these "lightly used" audio books.

Because the Talking Pages library is growing, we have updated the Catalog page so that you can view what is in the catalog by media (only CDs or only cassette tapes) and by availability (all books or only those available to be checked out), as well as by category of audio book. There is also a new option under category of audio book to see all books; this will produce a long list if you also select CDs and cassette tapes and those that are checked out and available.

Some users have provided feedback on having difficulty with the check-out login page. While we are considering better ways to design that page, we have also added a message on that page that you may type in the title of the audio books you want to check out in a textbox.

We have added information to the Catalog on each audio book to indicate whether the book is abridged or unabridged and to provide the number of CDs or cassette tapes.

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