Hello all. Is there any Mac Daisy reader that will read Bookshare books? I want to read the text, not listen to it in audio.
Sean On 26/07/2012, at 7:29 PM, josh gregory wrote: > Gordon: If all I'm looking to do is play the books, navigate and stuff > like that, will Olaria do that? > > On 7/26/12, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is no problem with copying daisy books across to the player on the >> Mac. >> Just put your daisy CD in the drive. >> Providing you have preferences set in Finder to show all drives then your >> Daisy CD will show up on the desktop. >> If it is an RNIB book it will be a long number beginning with 0. >> Just press command c on the drive on the desktop and copy it to the Daisy >> Player of your choice. It is likely that your Dictaphone will also show up >> as a drive, or if uses an SD card, ditto. >> Any mp3 player will also play the mp3 content of the Daisy book though not >> necessarily in the correct chapter order, depending on how the book is >> structured. >> Of course you could rename the mp3 files to ensure they are played in >> correct order but this is a little time consuming. Most RNIB books nowadays >> will play fine in a standard mp3 player as they appear to have stopped the >> practice of scrambling the order of chapters. >> The only other thing to note it that the RNIB daisy books are now >> intolerant >> of me renaming the books from this long number to something more familiar. >> I have only experienced this as a problem in the last year. >> The way I resolve this is to create a folder on the Mac in Finder with a >> more familiar book name and simply copy the CD across into that folder. >> David Griffith. >> >> >> . >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lovette Yewchan >> Sent: 26 July 2012 04:41 >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: mac and daisy? >> >> HI there. I am wondering if you can insert a daisy cd into the mac and copy >> the files to a digital recorder or do you need a daisy player on the mac >> for >> this to work? >> THanks. >> Lovette >> >> On 2012-07-25, at 6:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: >> >>> There are a couple of players currently that I know of, one is free and >> one isn't. Obviously you gets what you pays for, and personally I find >> Olearia a bit restrictive in as much as it doesn't support libraries of >> books, and there are quite a few other things it won't do. But it's free >> and you can find it here: >>> >>> <http://code.google.com/p/olearia/> >>> >>> The other one is called "ReadHear" and is available from >>> >>> <http://www.gh-accessibility.com/software/readhear-mac-instant-download> >>> >>> It's a bit on the pricy side, and hasn't been updated in a million years. >> That said, it does work, and very well. >>> >>> The one area they don't cover is DAISY creation. That can't really be >> done on OS X unless you're prepared to accept a half-baked solution. There >> is an OpenOffice plugin but I personally found it to be more trouble than >> it's worth. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> On 24 Jul 2012, at 22:20, josh gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, is there a way that mac can play daisy books, like from BARD? 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