There is always Stanza, which is mostly accessible. I think that will convert from mobi, won't it?
On 1/9/13, Russ Kiehne <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I'll give it another try. I'l try one on ibooks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aman Singer > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Voice Dream Reader > > Hello. > I do not have a stream, but have converted quite a few books from > mobi to epub using ebook-convert and read those books in iBooks. I have > found that the author and title fields are maintained, at least for iBooks. > It may well be that they were malformed on the Mobi, that the Stream > doesn't > read them properly, or that ebook-convert is doing something strange and > out > of standard which is effecting the title/author fields for the stream. All > I > can say is that iBooks seems to have no issue with these fields. > HTH. > Aman > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Russ Kiehne > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader > > When you do this conversion, does it transfer the book title and author? > I've run across some epub books that have been converted this way. On my > stream it won't speak the book title or author when I move across the > bookshelf. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aman Singer > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 6:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader > > Hi. > Though I agree that Calibre is an excellent book manager, its GUI is not > accessible to any screen reader. However, it can be used to convert books > from mobi to epub through the command line, which is accessible. See > http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html > for instructions. I have a Pithon script which, when a mobi file is > clicked, > will convert the file to Epub and put it in a temporary directory. If > anyone > wants this, let me know. > Aman > > On 1/8/13, Winston Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't have any plans to support mobi at the moment. You can use >> Calibre to manage and convert all your eBook file formats. Calibre is >> free and a good piece of software. >> >> On Jan 8, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: >> >> Will this app support reading books in the mobi format? >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Winston Chen >> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:27 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader >> >> I'm going to do this (speaking and spelling the selected word) in the >> next two releases. >> Winston. >> >> On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Richard Turner wrote: >> >> Are you also going to make it possible for VoiceOver users to know >> what the text is that we are touching? That would help for the >> definition function, etc. >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Winston Chen >> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 8:21 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Voice Dream Reader >> >> It is possible to set a bookmark with VO on, but it's a little clunky >> right now. You need to press the text area and hold for a second. And >> then you'll have the option to Define, Bookmark and Highlight. A >> bookmark is always set at the beginning of the paragraph you'll on. A >> highlight is set on the sentence. So even it is imprecise because >> you'll see the exact Word you're pressing, in the end it'll be close >> enough. Once you set a bookmark, you can go back to it using the >> Bookmark menu, which lets you navigate to a autogenerated chapter, >> bookmark, or highlight. >> >> I'm going to add a "Bookmark" button in the next release so you can >> set a Bookmark at the speech cursor without having to invoke the >> context menu by long press. >> >> Winston. >> >> >> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Timothy Emmons wrote: >> >> Thanks Winston, I figured you had gotten it but were busy with other >> things so it's cool. Glad to know that a lot of folks are using it, I >> have found the bookmarks chapter marks and such very usable for >> navigation and have used this since I have gotten it more than read2go >> because it does recognize more formats, and has more voices with >> everything. Keep up the great work and I hope to see some great things >> from you guys in the future. I noticec the textbox and that is handy. >> The only thing is, how does one set bookmarks in a particular book, or >> is it possible with voiceover yet. I can get to all the bookmarks that >> are automatically generated but didn't know if I could set my own. I >> haven't explored the chapter marks yet and was wondering if that is a >> separate setting or how that works, but I use a lot of the >> automatically generated bookmarks to navigate with now which is nice. >> Anyway, thanks again for getting back to me, and keep up the great work. >> I'm >> recommending it to not only blind and visually impaired patrons of >> mine since I work for the Library for the Blind here in Alabama, but I >> am also recommending it to students with learning disabilities that >> are on bookshare and even if they're not to use the app because of all >> it does provide for the price especially. I'm hooked and hope to see >> more great updates and features as you can. Thanks for a great product >> and keep up the great work. >> Take care and talk to you soon. >> On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Voice Dream Winston wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes I did get your email. I'm thinking through text navigation of the >>> text >> area right now. I don't want to rush to a solution yet. I can't just >> turn on VO support because I built the text box myself in order to >> handle very large text. >>> >>> Quite a few blind users are using my app happily now, using a >>> combination >> of chapter marks, bookmarks, text search, and manual scrolling. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Winston. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Rick Alfaro <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Winston. Thanks for monitoring this list. Have you received >> feedback that I've sent regarding VoiceOver support issues? I sent >> feedback via the contact option within your app. >>> >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Rick alfaro >>> >>> On 1/5/2013 10:53 PM, Winston wrote: >>>> Hi, I'm the developer of Voice Dream Reader. In the next version >>>> you'll be able to download voices on 3G. Thanks for being a customer >>>> and sorry for the inconvenience. Winston. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:29:44 AM UTC-5, Ketan Kothari wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Friends, >>>> I have purchased a few voices in the app but it asks me to use ViFi >>>> which I don't have. I can connect my Iphone 4S to my laptop and >>>> connect to the internet. Using Itunes can I download these voices? >>>> If so how? 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