RNIB Newsagent is your one stop source for newspapers and magazines including most of the national daily newspapers and many weekly and monthly magazines.
Our Digital Download Service offers an extensive range of titles, some of which are narrated by volunteers at our studios, whilst others are produced using a very high quality synthetic voice.
As the quality of electronic synthesised speech improves, so it will be possible to provide more full length publications in this format.
There are a number of exciting ways you can listen to the most up-to-date newspapers and magazines.
Log in to Newsagent and find the title you want to download or listen to.
Each publication is split up into a number of files.
Once you have chosen the publication, the sections will be displayed in a table. Navigate to the section you want to access and choose either play or download. If you choose play, your default media player will play the section. If you choose download, the MP3 file will be downloaded to your default download folder. Navigate back to the list of articles to play the next article.
You can download the complete publication in ZIP format to play with software such as Windows Media Player or VLC Media Player.
You can open the ZIP file and play each article individually or play from the ZIP file in sequence.
To play from the ZIP file, highlight the file, press shift-f10 or the applications key and arrow down to “open with”. Any media players you have installed will be listed. Choose your preferred player and press enter. You can now move from section to section within the publication with your player’s commands.
You can subscribe and listen to audio publications in a similar way to the Newsagent eText service. Dolphin Guide Connect will be able to play audio content from the Newsagent Audio Service.
Use Speakon Media Suite to subscribe to Newsagent Audio publications.
Log in to the Newsagent Digital Download Service with your browser. You can listen to individual sections of publications or download the ZIP file to your device to play in applications such as Voicedream Reader.
Using a podcast player that supports authentication, you can automatically receive publications that you subscribe to as podcasts. You copy the RSS URL from the Newsagent Digital Download site and add it as a podcast. You also need to enter your Newsagent Digital Download Service username and password for each publication that you subscribe to.
We hope you enjoy using the RNIB Newsagent Digital Service.
For help please contact the RNIB Tech For Life Team via the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email [email protected].
Using a podcast client that supports authentication, you can automatically receive publications that you subscribe to as podcasts. You copy the RSS URL from the Newsagent Audio site and add it as a podcast. You also need to enter your Newsagent Audio username and password for each publication that you subscribe to.