[nabs-l] Epub on pacmate

Thu Jan 23 15:59:45 UTC 2014

Thanks for the info.
Amanda

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