[Dtb-talk] PC Daisy Reader for Bookshare Books
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Mon May 16 00:23:27 UTC 2011
Bookshare members used to be able to download a version of the PC
Victor Reader software, modified for Bookshare -- as a part of their
subscription. I believe they still can. Nose around on the BSO site and see.
Dave
At 01:00 PM 5/15/2011, you wrote:
>I recently downloaded a book in Daisy format from Bookshare. I opened it
>with FSReader and found that I could not access the whole book. I presume
>Bookshare is up to its usual trick of not quite conforming to Daisy or Niso
>standards. I can put it on my Victor Reader Stream but would rather read
>this one on a PC as it is computer-related.
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>What's a good PC Daisy reader that can handle the vagaries of reading
>Bookshare books? Or will I have to download the .BRF version, not knowing if
>it conforms to Computer Braille standards? Wish Bookshare still would
>produce .HTML files.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Mike Freeman
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