Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Thanks. I've managed to download some books from Kobo and i'm reading them with Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview. Just to put it very clearly - you need to interact with the page, then make sure that quicknav is off, and then you can page back and forward with left and right. It works pretty well - although more control and the option for continuous reading is certainly missed. I think it is worth engaging with Adobe on sorting out these final niggles in what is a much-improved app for the Mac. I'd also encourage people to write to apple to request iBooks for the Mac. The access potential is so huge - and it is really silly that it should be held up by small technicalities at this point. Jane wrote: I just use the arrow keys for previous and next page. Left for previous, right for next. Jane On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possible, but you can speed up page turning by creating your own shortcuts for Previous Page and Next Page. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:37, Max wrote: Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Hmm, When I interact with the page, voiceover crashes. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 29, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Max wrote: Thanks. I've managed to download some books from Kobo and i'm reading them with Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview. Just to put it very clearly - you need to interact with the page, then make sure that quicknav is off, and then you can page back and forward with left and right. It works pretty well - although more control and the option for continuous reading is certainly missed. I think it is worth engaging with Adobe on sorting out these final niggles in what is a much-improved app for the Mac. I'd also encourage people to write to apple to request iBooks for the Mac. The access potential is so huge - and it is really silly that it should be held up by small technicalities at this point. Jane wrote: I just use the arrow keys for previous and next page. Left for previous, right for next. Jane On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possible, but you can speed up page turning by creating your own shortcuts for Previous Page and Next Page. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:37, Max wrote: Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Max, Are you using SL or Lion with the Adobe application? It seems people with Lion are reporting crashes upon interacting with a page. Also, just to clarify, should this Adobe beta allow the use of books from the google store as well as Kobo and Barnes and Noble's nook store? I've been out of town for a few days and could not believe the number of messages I just went through, so it is possible this has been answered and I missed it in the flood. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
I'm not sure about google but, It does work with BN and Kobo. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 29, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Mary Otten wrote: Max, Are you using SL or Lion with the Adobe application? It seems people with Lion are reporting crashes upon interacting with a page. Also, just to clarify, should this Adobe beta allow the use of books from the google store as well as Kobo and Barnes and Noble's nook store? I've been out of town for a few days and could not believe the number of messages I just went through, so it is possible this has been answered and I missed it in the flood. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
It is working for me on Lion. I did have some crashes before, but i don't get crashes if i do exactly the following: 1. With quicknav on interact with the page. 2. With the very next key bress put quicknav off. 3. Then left and right works fine for skipping pages backward and forward. I've only tried it with Kobo books - but it should really work with books from any store that uses Adobe epubs.. Ricardo Walker wrote: I'm not sure about google but, It does work with BN and Kobo. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 29, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Mary Otten wrote: Max, Are you using SL or Lion with the Adobe application? It seems people with Lion are reporting crashes upon interacting with a page. Also, just to clarify, should this Adobe beta allow the use of books from the google store as well as Kobo and Barnes and Noble's nook store? I've been out of town for a few days and could not believe the number of messages I just went through, so it is possible this has been answered and I missed it in the flood. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
This is great news. I haven't checked out some of the books I've wanted to from the library because of the lack of accessibility.. Now it seems I can. Thanks, Teresa On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Max wrote: Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possible, but you can speed up page turning by creating your own shortcuts for Previous Page and Next Page. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:37, Max wrote: Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
I just use the arrow keys for previous and next page. Left for previous, right for next. Jane On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possible, but you can speed up page turning by creating your own shortcuts for Previous Page and Next Page. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:37, Max wrote: Thank you Jane. I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 preview and it seems to be quite accessible with Voice Over. At the moment i can only read by page - but maybe i just haven't found the short cut keys for reading by line etc yet. I'm also finding that after every page i manually have to click on next page before it goes on. Do you know if there is a setting to make pages turn automatically? Either way, it is a massive improvement over the previous Digital Editions App which wasn't at all accessible. Jane wrote: Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Reading ebooks on the Mac
Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac
Hi there. Yes I am talking a bout 1.8 Beta for Adobe Digital Editions. As for Overdrive, not talking about those. I'm talking specifically about Kobo Books--I thought that's what the person was referring to. Overdrive books are supposed to be supported now with adobe 1.8. I have yet to find out, but I plan to--soon. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Jane, Wow, this must be the 1.8 beta that is supposed to add accessibility support. According to the MacUpdate page, this was released July 20, 2011. Is this usable? The current stable version of Adobe Digital Editions (1.7.2) does not let VoiceOver read anything. The MacUpdate reviews of this product (stable versions) by sighted users are at the lowest ratings. Have things gotten better? On the iPad are you using this with OverDrive? (since BlueFire Reader, the other app that supports library downloadable ADE DRM renders even books without DRM protection unreadable by VoiceOver). Cheers, Esther On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:20, Jane wrote: I am currently using Adobe Digital Edition 1.8 to read books from Kobo on the Mac. I am also getting it to work on the iPad. It takes some fiddling, but you can read books from there with either the Mac or the iPad or other iDevice. Jane On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Max wrote: Hi. Can anyone give some advice on reading e-books on the Mac? I've tried the Kindle and Kobo apps for Mac and they are both not accessible. I know that Stanza can read some DRM-free formats - but that only takes you so far. Are there any Mac solutions that are as easy to use and accessible as iBooks on the iPhone? Please help Thanks Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
