[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books

[Kaiti Shelton]

Voice Dream sounds awesome!  I'll have to check it out too.

Blio is really good.  I'd definitely recommend that one too.

Also, if you have a notetaker like a BrailleNote or BrailleSense with
a refreshable display you can use bluetooth to connect to your IPhone
and read that way with a make-shift braille display.

On 4/2/13, Ashlee g <hotdancer1416 at gmail.com> wrote:
> cool i will look that up
>
> NOTHING ABOUT US, WITHOUT US. AUTISTICS RULE
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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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Kaiti