[nabs-l] kindle/brf books

[Valerie Gibson]

Greetings all,
Ihave a question or two that kind of relates to the future of braille books due to the kindle and other forms of ebooks.
I could have posted this in that thread, but i feared by my questions that the topic might be thrown ...well, off topic.
first, does anyone know if the kindle is accessible for the mac?  is the mac ap or the mac software for kindle accessible with VO?

I don't want to purchase a kindle device if i have a computer that could do teh same thing...too many gadgets to cary around for me.

Second, I believe that it's kidn of irronic how the nfb is going on about all this new technology that "speaks" to su more than we encourage people to read braile.

I love autio books as much as the next person, but i believe in reading the books in braille too when my hands are not tied up with other things.
This is the main reason i keep my braillenot around, and dont' just read books with the speech on my ipod or computer.

This brings me to my second question. Given that the bn can be used as a braille display, and given that i don't like using windows any more than i have to, does anyone thing that there is going to be, or should be, a mac ap for reading brf books?

Just my thoughs and ponderables.

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