[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

Thu Jan 23 15:46:40 UTC 2014

I've seen a couple demonstrations of the braille-sense U2 and the
braillenote apex.  For one thing the U2 has 4 times the storage space.
 The apex only has 8 gigs of internal storage, and the u2 has 32 gigs.
 From the demonstrations I've seen, I feel the u2 can connect to the
internet much faster than the apex.  The u2 also has a dropbox ap and
can play youtube content.  It just sounds a lot better to me than the
apex.

On 1/23/14, Kirt <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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