[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

Thu Jan 23 15:37:17 UTC 2014

I personally am almost to the point of just wanting a braille display with my iPhone and having done… Not quite, but almost.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:26 AM, "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've never used an apex, buut I loved the braille sense; trying to contribe
> a way to get one.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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