[Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

[Judy Jones]

Hi, Ashley,

I know you have a lot of questions about Kindle that will come clear once you try it out.

I think you turn pages on the Pc with ctrl-T, but not sure.

In uindle, the main window has tabs for Home, Library, and M. Each tab has its on set of menus and options. One library, there are various filters for seeing all books in your library, or just downloaded. There is a way to lump book series together if you wish. there is a button that will give you yet more options.

If you download a book, each book has it's own menu page with table of contentsb utton, waypoints, add bookmark, and a More options butt with you more features which will let you navigate bookmarks, share progress, shop, review the book, etc. Then, back on the page, if you tap on Book Action, you exit the menu back in the book. 

When on the phone, you swipe among pages, on the BS6 you space to move forward, hit dot 4 to move backward, and other keystrokes for other functions.

Maybe because I'm not used to it, I from-do the PC most limiting. It seems like you tab through sever options. You can also see a list of all your downloaded books. On the PC, the screen reader reads the book, there's no tabbing or arrowing within the book that I know of, but again, I'm not that familiar with reading Kindle on the PC.

I think you can also read Kindle books directly from the site, but not sure.

There are many free books on Amazon. You can also get an unlimited subscription which allows you to have fifteen books out at a time before returning one. They've probably lost money on me hahahaha.

However, even without the subscription, there are loads of freebie books.

I forgot to mention, there is a search feature in the app as well.

A lot will come clear, once you start actually using the app, and I would be glad to answer any questions. The best thing to do is to practice by finding a free book to download.

Oh yes, about Eloquence. I bought the ETI Eloquence app years ago when it was available on the play store. It no longer is, but this has allowed me to use it on the BS6.

Feel free to ask me any other questions as they come up.

Also, I faild to mention you can also download books from the play store and read with Google. I don't, but know of blind people who do.



Judy
sent from the Selvas braille Android tablet

----- Original Message -----
From: Ashley Bramlett via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Friday, October 25, 2024 07:09 PM
To: "Faith-talk, for the discussion of Blindness in faith and religion" <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
CC: Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Faith-Talk] accessible Christian books and study materials

Judy,
This is helpful to know about alternative accessible resources.
It's nice you can use mainstream sources like the Amazon kindle Ebooks and
librivox app to read materials.
 
Thanks; it sounds like you can navigate some in Kindle books. I'm assuming
you have to buy them from Amazon first? I heard not all kindle books worked
with screen readers. Maybe this has changed now? 
 
Do you just open the books and read in grade 2 braille? 
 
You said,
 
" Yes, I do read with the braille or Eloquence on my BS6 in the Kindle app.
I'm really not as familiar with it on the PC.  I mostly read on my phone,
and the BS6 second.
 
It's been awhile since I have read with LibriVox, but did enjoy the
experience.  They do have all kinds of books."
 
 
To clarify, you read in braille or use Elloquence on a notetaker? The bs 6
is the Braille Sense 6 notetaker, right?
I did not know that had eloquence as an option. 
 
If anyone has read kindle books using the pc, let me know how your
experience was. I'm wondering if you can open the book and navigate it like
a webpage with links as chapters. If not, how do you get from chapter to
chapter? Can it be navigated by certain pages such as using Jaws or other
screen reader to indicate what page you want and then tabbing to a go button
or something similar which would jump you to a certain page?
Does it have its own built in keyboard shortcuts for navigation?
It sounds like I need to learn how to use Kindle to broaden my reading
options. 
 
As for LibriVox, do they even have Christian materials which are current? My
understanding of Librivox was it was a free app with free human read books
in the public domain. The fact they are older in the public domain is why
they can be read by anyone in the world.
You say you have not used it in a while. Can you remember any books you read
and liked? Can you navigate by chapter or section as you read the book?
 
 
I'm looking for books about Christian history and possibly study books for
Advent season to do with family perhaps. I'm also seeking books by pastors
such as Max Lucado or David Jeremiah. I wanted to read one of Charles
Stanley's books but never found it in audio format. I cannot remember the
book title now though.
 
There are websites for Christian books to order and I wish low vision and
blind people had a way to have a Christian bookstore too.
 
 
It sounds like you have used your good technology skills and used mainstream
sources for your reading needs.
 
Once I set up bookshare, this will help a lot. I can use my VR stream, pc or
Ipad to access such books.
 
Thanks,
Ashley

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