It depends on the software used to produce the daisy book, but in
general, as long as the book isn't encrypted, you can play the mp3
files in any mp3 player. Of course, you loose the functionality of
the daisy format in this case, but if you're just looking to get at
the content, without regard for navigation via page/chapter/paragraph,
then any old mp3 player will do the trick. This (again) assumes no
encryption was used in creating the daisy books.
Often the file names are not sequential, so there may be some hit or
miss to see what file comes next, which is why I suggested using the
smil file, just open it in quicktime, and all the chapters will be
laid out quite nicely for you to pick and choose which one you'd like
to listen to. I've seen daisy books with a single large file, and
others with hundreds of files, and obviously, if you're hunting for a
specific location, and you've got hundreds of files to churn through,
it can be quite the chore, but it does work. I've only used daisy
software once or twice to read daisy titles, most of the time, I just
load the mp3 files into quicktime and go from there.
hth.
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