Sorry, all, if this, too, comes in twice or looks strange.
Hello, Marco and all.
This will undoubtedly sound odd, but I am more irritated and enraged
about the fact that the Kindle store isn't accessible than I was when,
ten years ago, we had such a small number of books available. Ten
years ago, to make a printed book accessible took time and effort. At
the very least, it took modifying the printer or author's electronic
text to make it readable. More usually, it required time and money to
make talking books or braille. It wasn't excusable that publishers
refused to spend the time and money, but it was understandable, no
business wants to pay out for something which brings in no return.
The situation is very different now. Books in Epub or Kindle format
are accessible by default. Rather than letting them remain
accessible, publishers spend their time and money putting their books
into inaccessible formats, like image-based PDF, or putting DRM on
accessible formats and forcing them to be read in inaccessible
programs to supposedly protect them from copying. Having done that,
they don't bother making those supposedly protecting programs usable.
Ten years ago, I couldn't properly read a book because I am blind and
can't hear well. That's a misfortune, but it's not anybody's fault.
Now, I can't properly read a book because the publisher and vendor
think that the illusion of security is more important than allowing
their books to be read by all. That is somebody's fault. It is far
more of an outrage than the fact that the publisher didn't take steps
to make the book accessible, the publisher is taking steps to make an
accessible book inaccessible.
On another matter, you ask
The next thing for me
> would be to have an accessible library that has books you can borrow
> digitally for a month instead of paying $15 for each title.
I'm not sure where you are, but your local public library may allow
borrowing through overdive http://www.overdrive.com
They offer a good many titles, in both Ebook and audio book format,
depending on the library. Their books are generally in Epub, at least
outside the United States. Their audio books are in windows media
format, and can be played on their own overdrive media console app on
the iDevices. They do, however, require that you break the DRM on the
books to read them smoothly and in iBooks/your Epub reader of choice.
I believe the application that is used to read them is somewhat usable
on the iPhone. The audio books certainly work well, I'm not sure,
though, about the Ebooks. The application used to read them on Windows
is Adobe Digital Editions, which is supposed to support screen readers
but crashes allot when one is loaded.
I hope that's helpful.
Aman
Marco Migotti wrote:
> Isn't it interesting how 10 years ago the discussion was how to gain access
> to off the shelf books as talking book selections were very limited as
> compared to the local library and book store. Now that we have access to
> thousands of titles, we are still threating over not having access to a
> particular book store.
> As for me, I love IBooks as I have read lots of interesting Canadian titles
> that I have heard in radio interviews and not have had to wait 5 years for
> the CNIB talking book library to get around to recording the book. I admit
> though that it more titles would be a good thing, but as of this moment, I
> am so very happy to have access to books right away. The next thing for me
> would be to have an accessible library that has books you can borrow
> digitally for a month instead of paying $15 for each title.
>
> Marco
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Mary Otten
> Sent: December-08-12 8:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: kendal books with the apple store
>
> No, you can't get kindle books from the apple store. It is amazon's
> exclusive product. They have a lot that iBooks doesn't, which is why it is a
> shame that Kindle remains inaccessible.
> Mary Otten
> [email protected]
>
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