[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books

[Ashlee g]

cool i will look that up

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On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:47, Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a quick note, if you have aniDevice, another app is Voice Dream.
> You can download books and many other documents (including
> powerpoints) from Bookshare, Gutenberg, iTunes, DropBox, or the web
> browser. It will read it using your preferred voice, each of which
> costs $1.99 (and a very few cost $2.99). This is especially helpful if
> you have foreign language documents because Voice Dream has a
> plentitude of foreign voices from Spanish and French to Chinese and
> Japanese. The voices are wonderful, and have made listening to school
> documents much nicer for me, as well, of course, for books.
> 
> I don't know much about reading e-books on the PC, but that's my
> little spill about a great app for the iDevices.
> 
> Good luck,
> Jewel
> 
> On 4/2/13, Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Kerri, Justin is right. I don't know about Blio on the PC, but I
>> have the app on my iiPhone. If you download the app for
>> iPhone/iPad, you don't have to have VO read the book to you. The
>> app comes with a set of voices you can choose from. Each one is
>> $9.99, so it's a bit of a cost at the outset, but the voices are
>> really good.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com
>> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:38:39 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books
>> 
>> I saw the blio at the convention two years ago.  it is
>> accessible.  They did
>> a bunch of workshops on it.  From what I saw then, and mind you
>> this was two
>> years ago, you could download it for free, but you had to pay for
>> amazon
>> books and anything else you bought.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Kerri Kosten
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:33 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books
>> 
>> Hi All:
>> 
>> So, I love to read.
>> What is the current access we have to mainstream Ebooks?
>> Is the Nook for PC accessible yet or is it only the Iphone/Ipad
>> app?
>> I love reading but I can't stand reading on the Iphone/Ipad. I
>> don't mind
>> voiceover for short things but I hate reading with it.
>> I prefer to either read in braille, on the computer using Jaws,
>> or listen to
>> an audiobook.
>> Does anyone use the Blio EReader? Is it accessible? If I were to
>> purchase a
>> book on it can you read it using Jaws?
>> There is a book I want to read that I can't find on either
>> Bookshare or BARD
>> and I looked on the Blio reader store and it is available for
>> only $2.99.
>> What sources do you use to get books for pleasure reading?
>> At this time, are there any other sources to read Ebooks on the
>> PC using
>> Jaws besides Blio and Bookshare?
>> I know books can be read in braille on the Iphone/Ipad using a
>> braille
>> display but I currently don't have one.
>> Thanks,
>> Kerri
>> 
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