[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

Kirt kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 15:12:52 UTC 2014


The PAC mate is a good machine… but it's old, in today's technological terms,

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> On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Amanda Cape and I think EPUB was only starting to gain serious traction when freedom scientific decided to stop supporting their notetaker , So I think you're probably out of luck on this one. <cape.amanda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But I want to read in braille.
> 
>> On 1/23/14, Matthew Dierckens <matt.dierckens at me.com> wrote:
>> A great way to read those books is voice dream reader on the iPhone. Saves
>> you from having to use something like Calibar library to convert to text or
>> Doc etc.
>> Matthew Dierckens
>> Macintosh Trainer
>> Blind Access Training
>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Amanda Cape <cape.amanda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I want to read them in braille on my pacmate. I have a website where I
>>> could get a bunch of epub books. Can someone check out the site and
>>> see if it is possible to convert them into an accessible format?
>>> www.tuebl.ca
>>> 
>>>> On 1/23/14, Ryan Silveira <ryan.l.silveira at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Amanda,
>>>> 
>>>> I can't remember if the epub ebooks are in PDF format.  If they are, I
>>>> don't think you can read them on the PacMate.  To my knowledge, they
>>>> haven't come up with a PDF reader yet.  If they are in txt (text
>>>> document), rtf (rich text format), brf (Braille format), doc or docx
>>>> (Microsoft Word documents), you should be able to download them and
>>>> read them perfectly.
>>>> 
>>>> Ryan
>>>> 
>>>>> On 1/23/14, Amanda Cape <cape.amanda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>> How can I read epub ebooks on my pacmate?
>>>>> Amanda
>>>>> 
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