[DTB-Talk] books in alternate formats?

[Dan Burke]

Milton's answers are excellent.

learning Ally should be playable on  your Stream, but only with a key.
I actually don't know if this is still available because I haven't
used Learning Ally in so many years.  Audible on the Stream also
required a key back in the day. Again, don't know if that's still
available. In essence, you have to get the key (a small digital file)
and put it on your SD card and install it per instructions.

The thing is, most everything is moving to people's phones, though you
can still get some apps for a PC. As Milton suggested, Apple's iBooks,
Kindle, Audible, BARD and even Nook have apps.  Also, there is a
digital textbook store that guarantees accessible formats, Vital
Source. They have an iPhone app. I have no idea if they offer theology
titles, though.

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It's the secret code that
Audible uses to keep you from sharing MP3 files, or Amazon uses to
lock down the Kindle formats.

EPUB is another accessible file format, like the DAISY format that
Bookshare uses. In fact, Bookshare will give you books in EPUB. If you
have a Victor Stream 2nd Gen, it will play EPUB, or if it's an old
stream with the SoftPack installed.

On an iPhone, The Voice Dream Reader, a paid app, is the most
versatile, playing Bookshare and EPUB, as well as Word and some PDF
formats.

And why isn't your seminary going to scan some of these books for you?
Seems like they ought to.

You might also look in some other repositories, like Gutenberg Project
or the Internet Archive. These wil not have new textbook titles, but
will have older textsof all kinds in formats you can use with Open
Book, the Stream of on an iPhone.

Best,
Dan


On 8/2/19, Milton Ota via DTB-Talk <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recording for the Blind is now known as Learning Alley and the web address
> is:
>
> http://learningalley.org
>
> Learning Alley also has an app for iDevices but I think you need to
> purchase the app from the Apple App Store.
>
> With regards to Audible, if you are wanting to download books from
> Audible, you might need the Audible Manager and authorize it for your
> victor Reader.
>
> Audible also has an app that works great on iDevices.
>
> If books are available from Apple's Bookstore you should be able to
> read them on your iDevice.
>
> You might also want to check out the Kindle Books and there is an app
> for the iDevice and desktop/laptops. Not sure about the accessibility
> of the kinds of books you are needing for your study.
>
> Hope some of these answer helps you in your studies.
>
> I'm sure there will be more responses to your inquiry and corrections
> to what I have mentioned here.
>
>
> Original message:
>> Hi everyone,
>
>> I've just been admitted to seminary and I'm starting to track down the
>> textbooks I will need for my courses.  I've found a couple on
>> Bookshare; but, I'm concerned with not finding some on Bookshare.  So
>> this brings up the question of alternate formats that can be read in
>> OpenBook or on the Stream.
>
>> Regarding ebooks, can these be read in OpenBook (I've heard of DRM and
>> Epub. I'm not sure if I'm confusing these with what can be read on the
>> Stream.)
>
>> As far as Audible goes, I used to be able to download MP3's of the
>> books onto my Stream but am unable to find that option now.  Can
>> Audible books still be downloaded in MP3 format?  If so, how?
>
>> Finally, does anyone know of other places to get audiobooks other than
>> BARD, what used to be RFB&D, Bookshare, and Audible?  Some of these
>> books will be huge and it'll take awhile to scan some of the chapters
>> (and who knows how accurate they'll come out the thicker the
>> book--especially Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology.)
>
>> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
>> Mike
>
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