Re: best epub reader app for I Phone and accessibility?

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:55:36 -0700

I'm sure there is a more advanced reader other then iBooks for students. I'm just not one of them so I don't care about it and never looked into it. I can't believe though that with as many apps as there are in the app store that one doesn't exist. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arianna Sepulveda" <[email protected]> 
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: best epub reader app for I Phone and accessibility?



Well, then, Apple might want to step up it's game, since it's now
releasing textbooks through iBooks. All those elements that Mario
mentioned are super important to comprehending information in
textbooks.


Thanks,
Ari

On 3/28/13, Alan Paganelli <[email protected]> wrote:
I think your misunderstanding the point of the reader. It was intended as a 

reader for novels etc and never intended for text books for students.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Barbuto" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: best epub reader app for I Phone and accessibility?



      Hi Dan,

I guess Gutemberg project uses the so-called "social DRM", out of
copyright protection.
For this kind of ebooks the Apple free downloadable app "Ibooks" could be 

suitable enough, but only in case of simple contents books, I mean
especially novels and litterature books in general.
In short, all that books readable almost sequentially from start to end,
from top to bottom.
Unfortunately, in case you need reading more complex books, the Ibooks app 

often fails, not showing you all the features of the book.
I'm mainly thinking of books filled with tables, footnotes, indexes with
nested items, headings, meaningful images, refeences and so on.
Ibooks seems not to recognize tables and consequently they cannot be red
according to their structure, by column or by line, but just sequentially 

line per line.
The text description tags of images, when present, are ignored as well as 

nested paragraphs in an index.
Setting the VO rotor in navigation by headings you are not allowed to jump 

to next or previous heading by the usual one finger down or up sliding
gesture.

I have found more suitable to reading Epub format, but not copyright
protected ebooks, the app called "Ilike2Read", downloadable not for free, 

despite I did not find a complete accessible and usable app yet, capable
of taking advantage of all the Ebooks navigation features.
Not to mention Ebooks Adobe DRM protected that are almost inaccessible to 

VoiceOver in Iphone and other apple devices.
Only the "OverDrive" app seems dealing a little with that kind of books,
but with bunch of shortcomings.

Of course, this is just my personal experience,
hoping it could help.

Mario.


At 11:57 27/03/2013, Dan Beaver GMail wrote:

Hi,
I see that project Gutenberg suggests several apps for reading their books 

in epub format.

does anyone know the most accessible and usable app for reading epubs on
the I Phone?

Thanks.

Dan Beaver





--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone"
Google Group.
To search the VIPhone public archive, visit
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 

"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 

email to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.





--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google 
Group.
To search the VIPhone public archive, visit
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
email to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.





--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.





--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google 
Group.
To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
--- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

Reply via email to