Richard I see you after what you copied from the website that you had more to say. I will dig up the link so you can try it for yourself. It was clearly stated that there was a free sample of the of the book in question. Stay tuned. Let me see if I can find that link once more.
Deidre > On Mar 4, 2018, at 5:12 PM, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > If you have a Bookshare subscription, you may find most of the books there, > but if there is one you want that is not on Bookshare, Kindle books can be a > great resource. > James Scholes has produced a little free utility that can convert a Kindle > book into ePub that can be read in Voice Dream Reader so one could use any of > those voices within Voice Dream Reader rather than reading in the Kindle app, > which is my personal preference. Partly, because you can start a book > reading and lock the device to save battery, whereas you cannot do that when > reading in the Kindle app. > Codex by James Scholes > > Here is a little section from his web site. I encourage any avid readers to > follow the link below and read about it and install the utility. > > block quote > A few years ago, I wrote a tutorial which guided people through the > installation and configuration of software for the purposes of gaining access > to books > purchased from the Amazon Kindle Store. The guide proved popular, but it > required heavy use of the command line, making it unsuitable and daunting for > quite a lot of people, not to mention that it was an absolute nightmare to > troubleshoot if anything went wrong. Which it frequently did. > Subsequently, in 2014, I started to develop a small prototype application to > make the process easier and more intuitive, not only for people wanting to > read Kindle eBooks, but also for me when people needed help. I named it > Codex, a word used from the 16th century onwards to denote, now ancient, > manuscripts > in book form. In the second half of 2015, I finally rewrote that prototype to > include the functionality I wanted it to have from the start, and the software > is now publically available to download. > block quote end > > Please note, that you can only convert books you have purchased and only for > your use--you cannot share them with others without violating the copyright > laws and cheating the author out of their tiny royalties. > In order to convert your Kindle books with Codex, you will need to install > Kindle For PC version 1.17, which you can get here: > http://turner42.com/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44183.exe > Here is a link to his web site: > http://jscholes.net/how-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books-with-codex-2/ > > Having said that, the vast majority of Kindle books can be read using > VoiceOver and the Kindle app. > I'd be curious about the book you said specifically said that was not > available. > > You have to purchase the Kindle book on the Amazon site, then you can have it > delivered to your Apple device, or down load it from your library. > > HTH, > Richard > > > > > “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.” > - Mitch Albom from The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, page 1 > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Deidre > Muccio > Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2018 1:54 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Kindle free app > > Hello all > I finally after all these years downloaded a Kindle free app for my iPhone. I > went to the archives to see what people had to say about it. I saw that the > last post was from May 1, 2013. And then there was a note from Amazon saying > that accessibility features had been put in place. So today for instance I > went to download a free sample of a book that was being discussed on one of > my lists. The book was not available through any of the recording libraries > for the blind or through book share. When I got to the description of the > book, it clearly stated that the particular book had no text to speech or > voice over capacity. I was impressed that I could get that information before > downloading the book to find that out The hard way. > Before I start buying books, I'm wondering who's using the Kindle free app > and where I might find free samples to test it out. Are people finding books > that can be read on the Kindle a valuable resource? It's interesting that > the book sample I wanted to download was just published in December 2017 > which may be why it was not converted to text to speech or voiceover. Who who > is responsible for that conversion? Is it the publisher or is that Amazon? > > Deidre > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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