Esther, Much thanks for this, You're a wiz.
Cheers Simon f -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2010 8:48 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people Hi Simon, You can purchase a DRM-free, ePub version of "Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual" by David Pogue from O'Reilly's eBooks. They sell their eBooks in multi-format bundles that include PDF files that you can read in Preview and ePub versions that you can add to your iTunes Library and read in iBooks on your iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch under iOS 4). They also have "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition" by the same author. All the O'Reilly books are available through Bookshare.org, internationally, although the annual subscription for users outside of the U.S. is probably the cost of buying the book from O'Reilly in an eBook bundle that includes an ePub version. Here's their web site: http://oreilly.com/ebooks/ You'll need to create an account with log in for your purchases. Once you buy the eBook bundle, you'll have access to multiple formats of the book from your log in account. They'll also tell you if the book has been updated. I'm not sure if this is still valid, but they ran a promotion for eBook purchases in connection with the iPhone (Stanza app) last year, and the coupon code "STANZACAT" on checkout gave a 40% discount. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Aug 11, 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: > It's in pdf format. > > Teresa > > On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > >> Is this book available in an e book format, that I could read on my >> ipad? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran >> Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:37 p.m. >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people >> >> Snow Leopard, The Missing Manual from OReilly publishers is an >> extremely good book. It describes in detail what the window controls >> look like and any keystrokes, if applicable, etc. I highly recommend >> it. >> >> Teresa >> On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: >> >>> Hi: >>> Now this is a switch. LOL. I've learned Windows from sighted people, >>> so >> have been able to adapt from their POV; however I'm learning the Mac >> from a blindness perspective. I'm trying to show a sighted person my >> Mac, and since I don't really know what the screen looks like, we're >> having issues. I.E. He cannot see the icons on the doc, and he cannot >> find the address bar in Safari. Any advice? >>> >>> >>> Sarai Bucciarelli >>> Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
