Hi Glenn, I'll start with your last comment first (the part about where you're hoping there is a better app than iBooks for reading PDFs). My preferred app for reading PDFs is Voice Dream Reader. But that's because I like the options for keeping track of my reading position, voice selection (and language), and preferred speech rate remembered and customized for each book or document. And I also like the Neospeech voice options, and I personally found it very annoying that VoiceOver wouldn't read accented letters correctly when reading PDFs in iBooks (although these were OK in ePub versions) if I were reading in languages other than English which also used accented characters (e.g., French).
However, many people who only read in English won't care about that last point. Apart from that, all eBook reading apps are going to be better at navigation and control of content if you are using ePub format rather than PDF, but there are certainly some steps you can take to make things easier for yourself. iBooks can display books in either portrait or landscape orientation. For any apps that can use either orientation, I prefer to lock my screen orientation. If you are using iOS 7, bring up Control Center and there should be a lock orientation button you can double tap. Do you know whether your PDF contains embedded links for its Table of Contents? If so, there may be an alternate way to navigate through the book, although this is not standard practice with VoiceOver. You can also use the search function to position yourslef in a section of the book, although that will only take you to the page that the searched phrase is on -- not the specific location on the page. Try locking your orientation. If I use the page chooser, I'll touch the screen in the center and then do a two finger flick to start reading from the start of the page. And you can always try VoiceDream Reader if you really can't get along in iBooks. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Glenn wrote: > Hi, > So far, I'm not having much fun reading a PDF eBook with the iBook app. > I did put the voice rate into the rotor, and slowed it down for reading. > But I swipe until I get to page selector, and it keeps putting me on a page > around the middle of the book. > I did a two-finger flick up, and it started reading after I just got back to > page one, and when the screen orientation switched from portrait, it quit > reading, so I go down to the page selector at the bottom of the screen, and > it has me in the middle of the book again. > THERE'S GOT TO BE AN EASIER WAY! > If it wasn't a book well over 400 pages, I'd attempt it on a Braille > display, but I'm not a fast enough Braille reader. > I'm hoping I'm just missing a command, or there is a better app for this. > > Glenn > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences 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 an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
