Hi to everyone,
I am the developer and I can confirm Greg's answer to be correct.
I also appreciate that Richard wanted to take another look in the app. Some improvements were based on his comments, and while we may have not agreed on some things and possibly our conversation regarding them went further than it should those suggestions were really helpful and I am thankful for them.
The sad reality is that after 7 years of supporting Bookshare I had to conclude that it is a less of a work for users to download those 10 books (that is literal statistics for the December 2023) each month than for me to rebuild the support for the new app.
I sent suggestion to Bookshare that they should implement the share function within their reader app. That would make every app to support Bookshare, and considering that they allow downloads on the webiste there is no reason on why not to do this. I am not sure if that is going to happen as I got no answer on that, but if more people suggest that the chances for that to happen may be bigger. And I think that it is fairly simple for them and would be of great value for all Bookshare users.
On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 9:34:58 PM UTC+1 Greg Wocher wrote:
Hello,
The only way to get bookshare books in the app is to download the daisy file from the bookshare site and import that file into Speech Central. You download the file into the files app on your phone.
Greg Wocher
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OK, I want to explore Speech Central now that it has been updated.
I downloaded it.
Thanks,
Richard, USA
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It's always the best to try and decide yourself. One good option is mentioned above. It has been a gold standard for years. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that it now costs 80$/year (comparing to 30$/lifetime that it has cost last year or 15$/lifetime that it has cost for the largest part of its history).
My app Speech Central is completely free when used with VoiceOver. It has been developed for 10 years and current official version should be more than competitive with any other app. However for 10 years celebration in several days there will be a new version that has over 1000 improvements, many of them bringing improvements not available in any other app. I still haven't announced the feature set so you will have to wait for the official announcement for few more days, but you can try that new feature set even now through the beta channel as described here:
https://speechcentral.net/2023/11/17/beta-testing-of-the-next-gen-of-speech-central/On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 3:57:48 PM UTC+1 Jody ianuzzi wrote:
What app do you recommend is the best for reading PDF files?
"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way." NO BARRIERS Erik Weihenmayer
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