NLS has been producing and circulating audiobooks and braille books for more than 80 years. Books, and the digital equipment needed to read them, are available through a national network of cooperating libraries. Thousands of titles are also available online through the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service.

“For my personal fun I read about fitness,” Creviston says. Motivational writer Og Mandino is her favorite author—“He’s so positive, so uplifting, so simple”—but she also enjoys lighter fare by talk-show host Chelsea Handler.

Creviston is sold on the benefits of exercise for people with disabilities. “Physical challenges can be depressing, but increasing the body’s movement and firing up the chemicals in the brain can make people more energetic and feel less down,” she says. “It gives them a little more of a can-do attitude.”

The NLS collection includes dozens of titles on fitness and self-improvement, from authors such as Mandino and Dale Carnegie to more recent books by Deepak Chopra, Wayne W. Dyer and Oprah Winfrey’s go-to trainer, Bob Greene.

U.S. residents and American citizens living abroad who are blind, have low vision or cannot hold a book or turn its pages because of a physical disability are eligible for the NLS program. Audiobooks and braille books are delivered and returned by mail, postage free, and through BARD.

For more information or to request an application, visit www.loc.gov/nls or call (888) NLS-READ.

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