For the most part, any book you get on Kindle will be perfectly legible. There is always the question with BookShare of how legible the scanned material will be, and I frankly don't read BookShare books that have a "good" rating or below. I have an uncanny knack for discovering a book in which the climax of the narrative takes place on poorly-scanned copy. Also, I may only buy two books a year for about twenty dollars, versus the fifty dollars for BookShare per year, which is not in my budget. I do, like other listers, tend to look at the Braille and recorded book libraries for such things first, but find that for rare cases, I don't want to wait for the book to be processed.
Teresa On May 12, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > One big advantage to the kindle app is the amazing number of books we, as > blind readers, now have the ability to access in one place. It was stated, > in a recent Tech Doctor podcast, that this number is 1.8 million (I have not > confirmed this.) Not all these books will be readable with this app (the > ones that are images), and not all books on Amazon are available through > Kindle, but just having such a large number of readable books is the biggest > advantage. Another advantage is how quickly we will be able to buy these > books after they are issued as print copies. They probably are available > through kindle within a few days of publication. The Nook, and Google Books > services will have some of them, but Amazon has the largest number of eBooks. > > That having been written, as a blind reader, because I could not own books at > a reasonable price, I am very use to borrowing and reading books, and until > recently, returning them. So, I assure you, I check Bookshare, Bard, > Learning Ally, or any other legal source from which I can borrow and read > books, before I buy them. > > Arnold Schmidt > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileens Misrahi" > <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:49 AM > Subject: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from Bookshare > > > Hello List, > > Besides the obvious of,Bookshare not having a particular book, what other > advantages does the Kindle app have over using Bookshare to access books? I > will check Bookshare first to see if the book that I want to read is there to > download because of the ability to download the book for free. I have > "Read2Go" & Voice Dream apps on the phone to accomplish this. What features > in the Kindle app is unique to app that is not in the other apps? Input on > this would be great. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best, > Eileen > > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
