[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

[Joshua Hendrickson]

The pacmate is very old, even the pacmate omni doesn't go past 2007.
That's one reason I'm trying to save up for a braille-sense U2.  It
has a 32 cell display, and can read .epub files, and also things like
bookshare, bard, learning ally, and other txt formats like .txt, .rtf,
and .html.  The only reason I even have a pacmate now, is because
since I bought a pacmate omni, I can get $800 off in trade in value
against the cost of a braille-sense U2.  Also, the pacmate uses
compact flash cards and you can transfer files to compact cards, but
the transfer speed is something like 400 KBPS which is totally slow.

On 1/23/14, Kirt <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com> wrote:
> The PAC mate is a good machine… but it's old, in today's technological
> terms,
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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