[blindkid] Amazon Kindle and Bookshare question

[holly miller]

Ok, I think I'm seeing the problem here.
We just got our approval to use bookshare and now that I can sign on, I see
very few titles are available as HTML or TXT files, I thought they all
were.  The majority of books are just BRF or DAISY which isn't going to
work.

Can BRF be converted into any sort of text file?  For visual reading on the
computer...I'm not concerned about Kindle use at this point.

Our school is banking on being able to download any title from Bookshare for
Hank to read visually at whatever font he wants.  Now that I can actually
access bookshare, looks like that plan isn't going to work.

Holly



On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:

> Well actually when you download from bookshare you can download DAISY, or
> BRF (braille ready file.)  At least that is the way it used to be.  Then
> when you unpacked the files, you could also save a html version.  A brf
> file, is technically a text file, containing only ascii text, but if you
> were uninitiated, or had the wrong software, or didn't back translate, it
> would mostly look like gibberish.
>
> Dave
>
>
> At 04:25 PM 6/14/2009, you wrote:
>
>> I know the base Kindle format is different but on Amazon it says the
>> Kindle
>> supports TXT and HTML.
>> Bookshare files can be obtained in TXT and HTML.
>>
>> I don't know anyone locally that has a Kindle or I'd try it first hand.
>>
>> Holly
>>
>