Hi. Bought darwin reader Sunday and love it. Have dseveral books. Am very glad to have a bookshare app on android at last. sent from my android phone
Jeff Wissel <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Tina and everyone, >If anyone out there has stopped reading because of vision issues..... >I just feel compelled to encourage you to get a Bookshare.org >membership it >is $50.00 >The new Darwin Reader app is $3.95 >There is this huge universe of books now available via your android >phone >Within 2 minutes you can search for a book you want to read, download >it and >be listening to it. >Sorry to go on so about Bookshare.org and the new Darwin Reader but >this has >opened up a whole new world to me and I want to make sure everyone know >about this accessibility. >It totally rocks > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tina birenbaum >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:24 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MA] books > >Yes, darwin's great i think i have 10 or 12 books on my card since i >got the app sunday. I love it! Great app for anyone who has a bookshare > >account or has been dconsidering one. >Original message: >> Denise, >> Did you download Darwin Reader yet??? >> Awesome app for digital books for Bookshare.org.... > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Denise >Thompson >> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 6:02 PM >> To: Mobile Accessibility Android Users List >> Subject: RE: [MA] books > >> If you're downloading from bookshare you have to download to lyour PC >> at this time since there's no android app for DAISY files. After you >> download you unzip the file just like you would if you were going to >> read it with a DAISY reader. Then if you look in the folder where the >> files of the book are, usually there's any where from 8 or 9 files >> up, there's one than ends with XML. Click on that and it opens in >> your browser. Then do a select all (control plus A) Then copy it to >> the clip board (control plus C) Then open note pad or word pad on >> your PC and paste it there (control plus V) Save it. Then you have to >> copy it to your phone. There's probably already a Books folder on >> your phone Put it in there or create another folder for your books >> with whatever name you want. >> It sounds like a lot of steps, but it's very quick when you're used >> to it. I can download a book unzip it and vonvert to text in just a >> minute or so. I usually do several at once so when I connect my phone >> to my PC I can copy them over. >> In the programs I mentioned, most give you an options of finding the >> books on your SD card and arrowing down to the Books folder or >> whatever folder you have your books in. Then just click on the one >> you want to read. >> Denise > >> At 05:43 AM 7/9/2011, you wrote: >>> Hi Denise, >>> This sounds good. >>> A basic question. If I log into Bookshare.org on the phones web >>> browser...how do I download the book to my phone and how do I >specify I >> want >>> a text file? How do I retrieve the book from the phone for later >reading? >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Denise >Thompson >>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:09 PM >>> To: Mobile Accessibility Android Users List >>> Subject: Re: [MA] books > >>> I've tried the followi9ng programs with some success. But all of >them >>> it seems like just quit after a while So you have to start the >>> program over. Most start where you left off. Sometimes it starts at >>> the beginning again. These are programs that read text files. I >>> download bookshare books and convert them to text files then they >>> read fine in these programs. >>> Speak text Easy >>> Read To Me >>> PDF Reader- (this reads text files also) >>> Droid Talker >>> Moon Reader Pro- (with this one, If you have MA as your screen >>> readerwhen the book , the first screen will read with both MA and >>> your phones default TTS. MA quits shortly, though then the phones >TTS >>> continues reading and it's fine after that. The way to start the >>> speech with moon reader is to shake the phone. Sometimes you have to >>> shake it pretty hard to get the speech going.) >>> These are the ones I've had most success with. >>> Denise > > >>> At 01:53 PM 7/8/2011, you wrote: >>>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >>>> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01CC3D76.5B235820" >>>> Content-Language: en-us > >>>> Hi, >>>> Does anyone know about a good program to read books, like kindle. 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