[gui-talk] Kindle books

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi guys,

It's been available at Amazon for about a year now, and has been discussed 
and reviewed in tech articles and columns in the w"straight" in other words, 
not blind-accessibility-related) newspapers and such over the past year. Not 
a market monster like the IPhone, but not a total loser like a couple of 
earlier attempts at hand-held electronic books for the general consumer. 
There are a fair number of titles in Amazon's stock that can be purchased as 
Kindle downloads, and a function at every book listing allowing the customer 
to send a vote in favor of Amazon including the title in their Kindle 
library. So, outside of the blind world, it's a happening thing.

I wouldn't worry too much about feeling kept outside, though. Daisy format, 
free and non-free text files for reading with a screen reader, not to 
mention recorded audio, often for the same sorts of titles that wind up 
configured for Kindle, all these things and more are available to us who 
can't read visually. Personally, anyway, though I am of course wishing I 
could actually see such a thing,I'm not angry or feeling excluded because 
it's not mint for my use.

Now, If someone gets Amazon to retrofit these doobies with a speech synth 
and navigational commands, and it works well, I guess I'd consider it with 
the Victor Stream. But gosh, I haven't even gotten myself the Victor Stream, 
yet.

Ah, well.Just IMHO, as w say.

(meaningsoncumer.conseumer.consuim, and has sold accessiblility was had
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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so apparently you need to have this hardware reader in order to read a
kindle book, which is in some proprietary format? I would think there would
be software that could do the job just as well...
Thanks.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books


Hi,

Kindle is a hardware reader.  It looks like a book, but has a screen instead
of pages.  There are controls to allow the reader to turn pages and to move
from one book to another.  That's really about all I know about it.  But, it
has no speech and is not accessible.  It's also more expensive than the
Victor Stream.

Cindy
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Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:49 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Kindle books


Hi all -- Has anyone had experience good or bad reading books on Kindle sold
by amazon?
Is Kindle a software reader, or a hardware device like an ipod?
Is it accessible? I'd like to get an armload of books but since I would be
scanning them anyway, I would prefer getting them in some electronic format.
What is Kindle anyway?
I guess I'll go back to amazon and read up on it, but I wanted to ask the
list first.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, and the books aren't on bookshare -- I checked.
--le


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