Hi, You do not get a choice. It uses DAISY Text. It handles all the unzipping of the book automatically so you are presented with a clean reading format that takes very little time to download. HTH, Richard
> On Jan 15, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Pinky <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard, > So when you download books from Bookshare do you get a choice of what format > you want to download and if so what format do you use with Bookshare? > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 7:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Best app to read Bookshare books > > > It does appear that the lite version is no longer there, but that is no great > loss as it was pretty useless anyway. It was extremely limited for testing if > you are a blind user. Remember, his original market was to sighted users who > wanted to be able to listen to documents or books while driving. If you look > up the story of the app, he didn't know anything about accessibility until > after he created the app and started getting questions from blind users and > someone pointed out to him the lack of access to printed material and how > much potential his app had for people who are dislexic. > Once he found out how helpful the app is to blind and visually impaired, he > put his focus there and has made tons of major improvements for VoiceOver > users and for dislexics. > He also created a great note taking app called Voice Dream Writer. > If you are wanting to listen to BookShare books, it is the best app by far > for doing that. > You may want to buy other voices than the default Heather, and they can be > from $1.99 to $4.99 each depending on manufacturer and quality. > But, it is my most used app and thanks to someone on this list, I can now > convert my Kindle books so I can listen to them with Amy in Voice Dream. > Richard > > >> On Jan 15, 2016, at 4:38 AM, MamaPeach <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wasn't there, at one time, a lite version of this app so you could test it >> out? I am not finding it in the app store now. I don't want to spend $9.99 >> if I don't know if I am going to like it or not. >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Michelle Bernstein >> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 6:25 PM >> To: VIPhone >> Subject: Best app to read Bookshare books >> >> At the bottom of the home screen on the voice dream app are four buttons. If >> you press the first button, a screen pops up and at the end of the short >> list is Bookshare books. Select this option and it brings up a search box >> where you type in the title or the author of the book. The next step is to >> download the Bookshare book. >> >> Before doing this, you should go to the fourth button on the bottom of the >> home screen. This is where you go to enter in your Bookshare account >> information. Once this information has been entered, you are then linked to >> your Bookshare account and you can find books by going to the first button >> at the bottom of the home screen as I mentioned above. >> >> I am not aware of a sleep timer on the Voice a Dream app. You could email >> support for this app and inquire if there is such an option. >> >> Occasionally voice dream reader has been on sale. 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