Hello Mike,

Adobe Digital Editions is really for reading protected ebooks and it is 
therefore not possible to copy the content elsewhere unless you can take the 
time to make a screenshot of each page and perform OCR on it.

Cheers,

Anne


On 28 Jul 2011, at 16:49, Michael Busboom wrote:

> 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/>

<--- 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/>

Reply via email to