Odd. Do you have something special set up that might make it think you
want the Australian store? I know some US folks found changing to
English (Australia) gave a different intonation that they found more
understandable, but I don't think that does anything anymore, although
picking British English from the Languages is an interesting change of
cadence.
CB
On 2/27/12 8:46 PM, Mike Busboom wrote:
Hello Esther and others,
I would like to thank you all very much for your input regarding my question
about continuous reading of a book in the iBook application. As you stated,
Esther, a two-finger flick down from within the text did the trick. And yes, I
agree that upon more thought, this makes sense.
Now to my next question: Is it a reasonable expectation that most
commercially-done, contemporary novels found in the bookstore will be
accessible?
Even though I am currently in the U.S., I am still taken to the Austrian App
Store, though manually switching isn't a problem.
Kindest regards and thanks once again for your assistance,
Mike
On 26,Feb,2012, at 12:59 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Mike,
Just to expand on my comment about issuing the two-finger flick down from the text area
of the book to get continuous reading going in iBooks. Since this gesture is meant to
"read all" on the current page, starting from your present position, if you
wanted to find out about the page chooser at the bottom of the screen the first time you
checked the layout of controls in iBooks, and were starting from the buttons for Library
and table of contents, you wouldn't want VoiceOver to keep reading to the end of the book
before telling you that there were additional controls at the bottom of the page.
So what happens is that a two-finger flick down initiated from the area with button
controls at the top of the screen just reads the text that is on the current page, then
goes on to read the controls at the bottom of the screen. But if you initiate the
two-finger flick down from within the text area, your "read all from present
point" gesture continues to read through the text area, only, and will automatically
go on to the next page.
This originally confused me, too, the first time I encountered it and didn't
have VO read the rest of the page. But then it made sense that it would work
that way.
Most people touch the center of the screen when they do their two-finger flick
down, so that's why they automatically get the continuous reading.
You'll still notice a slight pause when you reach the end of the current page. That's
because iBooks does a simulated page turn graphic. This annoyed the heck out of some
early reviewers (who were not visually impaired. Andy Ihnatko wrote in his initial,
otherwise positive, review of iBooks for the Chicago Sun: "I do wish I could disable
the fancy page-curl animation. On an iPhone 3GS, at least, there’s a slight, but
annoying, additional pause as the app does a whole lot of math.") If this really
annoys you, changing the font size to be small will put a lot more text on the screen
before you get that slight pause.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Mike,
Try doing the two-finger flick down from the middle of the text page. For
example, if you're reading in the page, do a two-finger tap to stop. Then do a
two-finger flick down. Usually when you're in the text area this will work for
continuous reading. Or you can try to touch the center of the screen for the
text area first, then do the two finger flick down.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Mike Busboom wrote:
Hello Jane,
That's the problem. A two-finger flick down reads the current page, but reading
is halted at the end of the page. I have been unsuccessful at having
continuous read to work. I am read the current page from start to finish, but
then VO stops reading, i.e. the next page isn't turned to, nor is reading
continued.
Mike
On 26,Feb,2012, at 11:56 AM, Jane wrote:
Hi.
Tru a two-finger-flick-down. That'll start it reading and will turn pages.
Jane
On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Mike Busboom wrote:
Hello everyone,
A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the book on Siri and have started to read
it. The navigation works reasonably well, i.e. I can go to specific pages and
read a page in its entirety. Where I am having a problem, however, is getting
VoiceOver to read continuously. At present, at least with the approach that
seems to be working for me, I have to go to the page chooser and flick to the
next page..
Is there a way to get iBooks to do continuous scrolling or get VoiceOver to automatically
"turn pages and thus ensure continuous reading," as it were? I am staying with
a friend who has an iPad and he tells me that he is able to get this to work. He puts
his iPad in Landscape mode and can see two pages at a time. Would putting my iPhone in
Landscape Mode yield the same results? I tried,but was unsuccessful.
Kindest regards to all, with thanks in advance,
Mike
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