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Sightless Scribbles

Sightless Scribbles

By: Robert Kingett
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Listen to audiobook samples, blog posts, essays, short stories, and other literary stuff by the award-winning Blind writer Robert Kingett with a wide array of narrators!Copyright 2025 Art Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences
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  • The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs Gabriel Michael version
    Oct 28 2025

    Narrated by Gabriel Michael

    Read the Hostility of Doorknobs essay here

    In this essay, Robert writes about how round doorknobs could be hostile to his entrances and exits.

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    17 mins
  • Off the Grid Audiobook sample.
    Oct 24 2025

    Buy the Off the Grid audiobook here!

    The audiobook is narrated by Sean Crisden

    Could you survive a month without the internet?

    Robert Kingett didn’t think he could—until a friend dared him to try.

    The catch? Robert is blind, and he relies on the internet for everything. For thirty days he must use no Google. No social media. No online banking, shopping or job hunting. Ultimately, no digital shortcuts to help him navigate a world that’s already built to ignore people with disabilities.

    But as a journalist who advocates for accessibility, he knows this is a project that might just make a difference for the thousands of Disabled people across the country who still don’t have adequate access to the internet—and who face additional and unnecessary struggles as a result. And what begins as a personal challenge quickly becomes a radical social experiment.

    In his month off the grid, Robert encounters a whole host of challenges, both expected and unexpected, but also finds himself rediscovering, relearning and reconnecting in ways he never saw coming.

    Funny, eye-opening, and deeply human, this memoir is more than a story of digital withdrawal—it’s a bold wake-up call for improved Disability accessibility, inclusion, and the right to connect. Because being offline shouldn’t mean being left behind.

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    11 mins
  • The Acoustic Signature of Weather
    Oct 18 2025

    Narrated by Sean Crisden

    Robert describes his auditory relationship to all the seasons, and the acoustic signatures the weather can bring to any season.

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    4 mins
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