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Thank you for such a long thoughtful response.  Op, here.  How do electronic textbooks get handled?  One of the harder things in HS has been for DC to get his audio/electronic textbooks in a timely manner and they know the textbooks from the previous February.  THe technology is there to do it, it just takes time.  WHen student do not know their classes/professors until much closer to the start of class how do they get their electronic/audio versions of the textbooks early enough to be able to use them? [/quote]

Your son can see if there is one specific book that all the professors use for a class by contacting that department. He can explain he needs the book months in advance to get it converted to audio. If they can't promise they will use a specific book, try to get some idea of what books are in use and sign up for a class with a book where the publisher says they have an e-format. Professors don't usually switch books if they can help it, since it means redoing tons of work.

I know in our department we have switched to e-text books for most undergrad classes. The one I teach out of is a pdf. I think you'll find that most undergrad textbook publishers make e-books now, because they are so popular with the students.

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PDFs and even handouts in Word work as his text to speech software works for that.  That is helpful to know that he may only have a few textbooks to figure out.  Worse comes to worse he can scan them in page by page.  [/quote]

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