Howdy, All! I know this has been touched on and explained in depth before; but, at that time I was not interested in downloading e-books. Now, Bookshare.org has been highly recommended by a blind friend and I tried downloading from their site [not yet member; but would like so to become when my funds increase] Dante Alighieri's 'La Divina Commedia [Il Inferno, Il Purgatorio é Il Paradiso [complete books of cantos] in the Italian as '.html' and '.txt' files, but my TextEdit opened them up as 'garbage'. Did not want to download their 'download tools' as they were meant for Windows PC. Has anyone using only Mac OS been successful in downloading 'public domain' books from Bookshare? Is it possible? Can someone help me with this? Is there an alternative site which might have these public domain books capable of being downloaded to the Mac? I have an iMac G4 [PPC] running Mac OS 10.4.6. Out of 80gb hard disk space I have 30±gb remaining. Can I run these programmes from an external hard disk [have 3 with 'round 100gb each remaining].
I have read a lot in your posts about using Daisy Player; so, I assume there is a version for the Mac. Can someone help me with this, too? Is Victor Speech, or something like that for the Mac, capable of reading in other languages? VoiceOver does an abominable job of pronouncing Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch; pronouncing them as though they were English. Must I spend megabucks for reading software which can do a credible, at least understandable, job of pronouncing these languages. I do not ask for perfection in pronunciation. But I do like to read books in the language in which they were written. 'T'is more fun that way. I will greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me. Thank you. Joni
