Ann and Bill, both blind, discuss a reading group for visually impaired people.
Ann:
I said what I would like to do is to start a group, for visually impaired people who would read in an alternative format. And make sure all books that were available, would be available in the formats that were required. We actually listened to a book a year ago. It was The Girl with the Pearl Earring . We were able to talk at great length about the understanding of colour when you are visually impaired. Now you wouldn't have done that in the other readers' groups, but it was quite an interesting conversation about visually impaired people's perspective of colour.
Bill:
It widens your understanding of the books that you have read. It gives you an opportunity to get off your chest something that bugged you. It can be very interesting and you meet people. I didn't realise that there were other non visually handicapped groups in the borough. It was to do with a link up with Bulgaria and Finland.
Ann:
Yes they're setting up an international reading group between the 3 countries and they're using the web to run this group because there are people from the 3 countries and you just can't go on a monthly basis to Bulgaria or whatever so this is why the group is meeting using the website.
