[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

Thu Jan 23 15:26:09 UTC 2014

I've never used an apex, buut I loved the braille sense; trying to contribe
a way to get one.

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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Amanda Cape
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:24 AM
To: louvins at gmail.com; National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

The pacmate can read bookshare files. But it is cool that the braille sense
can read epub files. How does the braille sense U2 compare to the
braillenote Apex?
Amanda

On 1/23/14, Joshua Hendrickson <louvins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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