Thank you Teresa, you have confirmed my suspicions. Penny, I think you might be referring to books which are now called Google play books. I have an app for those which works well, as well as Kindle of course and nook and IBooks. I think, in that regard, I have every app Going for the purposes of book reading. Oh well, I will buy a printed copy and scan it in with ViewScan and the Mac… LOL Thanks
Kirsten Sent from my iPhone On 23 Jul 2013, at 16:20, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I understand it, Kirsten's reference was to the books that are > searchable in google, which are not ebooks. These are scanned images from > books, and aren't readable with an accessible app or screen-reader. > > Teresa > On Jul 23, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Penny Reeder <penny.ree...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The first book I read on my IPhone was a Google book. I found the >> book, bought it, and then read it without any difficulty straight >> through. That was a couple of years ago, so I don't know if the app >> has changed, but my experience was quite good. >> Penny >> >> On 7/23/13, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The Google books on the web that are not specifically ebooks are scanned >>> images. As far as I'm aware, the only thing you could try is scanning each >>> page and performing OCR on it. This seems extremely labor-intensive. Have >>> you looked for other sources? Unfortunately, it might almost be easier to >>> get a hardcopy outhe book if there are no ebook versions available >>> anywhere. >>> >>> Teresa >>> On Jul 22, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Kirsten Edmondson >>> <kirsten.edmond...@btinternet.com> wrote: >>> >>>> When I refer here, in the subject line, to accessibility or readability of >>>> Google books, I do not mean Google play books or any other related >>>> e-books. Google books seem to be set and I believe are either pictorial >>>> representations/graphical representations of the books and therefore are >>>> unreadable to screen readers such as voice-over. I have found a book I am >>>> desperately seeking but it is only available on Google books, andnot in >>>> any other format. Before I give up on it, I wanted to see if anybody has >>>> had any experiences of being able to read these books? Often, you canget >>>> a >>>> Previous page button and next page button but it does not seem to speak >>>> any of the actual text on the pages. This is my experience both with >>>> jawsand with VO on my iPhone. I just thought I'd check to see if anybody >>>> has had any different experiences. >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> Kirsten >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting 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.
