Hi all,
<teacher mode>
kathleen spear writes:
> Hello Robert, et al,
>
> So, are yo saying on BOokshare, Daisy books are straight
> text, and BRF is braille?
> (I don't understand why they are claled "daisy books then.)
DAISY Digital Accessible Information SYstem is a format of placing
text and sometimes audio so that it can be searched effectively by
chapter, section, paragraph etc. It is a way for information to be
organized to make it easier for a blind person to access information.
It is particularly helpful for someone who is reading a text book or a
manual, something in which information is organized by specific
sections.
A DAISY book is not straight text, this is the whole point. The text
of the book, in the case of bookshare books, and audio in the case of
other DAISY bookss has been "marked up" so that a reader can jump to
various parts of the book easily instead of reading straight through
it.
K.C. you could do worse than to spend a couple of minutes on Google
looking for DAISY Consortium an easy do, I just did it. There
you will find all you want to know about DAISY Books. They are
becoming the wave of the future. RFB&D has gone completely to DAISY
Books , or they will by next spring. Library of Congress is putting
all their audio titles into DAISY format and will be ready to release
new players and new books come 2008. Canada has already gone to DAISY
as has Britain and the EU.
In the case of Bookshare books, you can now, if you have an MPower or
a PK, download DAISY formatted books and use them. This is
particularly useful when downloading magazines or newspapers.
Hope this helps. It's why there's been so much traffic about it.
Some people are having trouble reading them with their machines.
</teacher mode>
Ann P.
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