[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hello,
Oh, there's an iphone ap for reading with voices?
Is this an ibook ap or something?
I assumed you had to have voiceover read it to you like Kerri said.

So there's other voices. Are there links to samples of them? I wonder who 
they are and what they sound like.
Sophie, do you use these as opposed to voice over?
And what books are we talking about? Ibooks or the nook ap?
Is it human sounding with inflections? I prefer audio books or braille like 
Kerri does since the monotone speech of most synthesizers is just too hard 
to process for a long period of time.

Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Sophie Trist
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:30 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books

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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