Hello Anne, When using the program, is there a feature that would allow one to save a book as a text or RTF file? It would then be possible to either read the book with a Braille note taker or create a hardcopy braille version.
Best regards, Mike On 27,Jul,2011, at 2:21 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Esther, > > I'm using Lion, and I just got this app today so haven't done much with it. > I've started reading a book from Kobo and it's stopped crashing now that I'm > into the book. I find that navigating around the screen causes VO to crash > more than usual. > > I've also hit a snag with Kobo books. It won't let me download the ones my > husband has already downloaded to his computer. I need to investigate this > one further. > > Something that will put quite a few people off this way of reading is the > fact that you have to click a button to turn a page. I'll set a shortcut for > this, but it still won't read continuously. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > On 27 Jul 2011, at 13:23, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Anne, >> >> Are you using the Adobe Digital Editions Preview under Lion? Because I >> haven't found this to be crashing VoiceOver frequently under Snow Leopard. >> Bookmarking works, and you can annotate the bookmarks with a label under >> than the default date/time marker. Searching also works. I did try this >> with a commercially purchased Adobe Digital Editions ePub book other than >> from Kobo, and it worked. It should also work with ePub file downloads from >> public libraries that use OverDrive. >> >> The previous stable versions of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) only >> announced the button controls for minimize, close, and zoom, and the title >> bar, so this is a big improvement! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Jul 27, 2011, at 00:14, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I haven't got much time to test this today, but in the brief period I've >>> spent on it, it looks as though it's usable. It crashes VoiceOver fairly >>> frequently and Braille is a bit unreliable. >>> >>> However, it claims to handle not only Kobo books, but also Barnes and Noble. >>> >>> You can find out more about it from the Website at: >>> <http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions1-8/> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
