My Macular Degeneration Journey/Journal
From Diagnosis to Decision – June 2023 Since Sue has not written any new journal pages for some time, the site has been archived until we can decide if the work necessary to make sure all information is accurate and up-to-date can be made. In the meantime, you'll get some pages 'not found' or 'private' until that decision has been made. The emphasis for several years has been on the Facebook group.
Although the concept of ‘talking books’ has been around for MANY years – since the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877 – it wasn’t until the mid-to-late 1970s that they became available commercially. 1986 is considered a turning point (read more about it in Wikipedia). Now the industry is going “where no one has gone before”…