[nabs-l] Bookshare

[kcj21]

I highly recommend Bookshare's Read to Go app. It's really easy: you can download books directly to your phone and it will hold about 8 large books at a time. It's also very accessible especially with Voiceover. 


On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:20 AM, Chris Nusbaum via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
  


Interesting. One would think that, given that the BrailleSense runs more reliable and up-to-date software, it would be easier for Bookshare to fix the bugs associated with this notetaker. I could see the reasoning behind Bookshare's making the BrailleNote bugs a priority—that is, that K-12 students, who are among the most dedicated users of Bookshare, overwhelmingly use the BrailleNote 
more than other notetakers. When customers started noticing that Bookshare wasn't working with the BrailleNote, Bookshare probably received a lot of feedback from students and TVI's who said they could only access the Web site on their BrailleNote and need that access for their classwork. BrailleSense users might also have more access to a computer with which they can download the book, so they might not have heard as many bug reports from these users. I don't think there's any money involved, but we can't be certain.

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> On Nov 25, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Kaiti Shelton via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oddly enough, it also wasn't compatible with the BrailleNote line of
> notetakers, but they fixed that, unless the reason for it not working
> was different... call me a cynic, but it seems like we know which
> company is paying Bookshare more money.  :)
> 
> I've been working around this by just downloading the books to my SD
> card from my laptop and putting the SD card back into the
> BrailleSense.  It's slightly less convenient, but it isn't a terrible
> hassle; I have had Bookshare since before the BrailleSense was around,
> so I really don't mind taking the extra time.
> 
> What I do mind is that the new site had problems with both major lines
> of notetakers, and Bookshare saw fit to only remedy the problems for
> one line of product.  I know that the BrailleSense line has become
> more popular in the past several years, so why they wouldn't make the
> site work for both so all can have notetaker access to downloads just
> doesn't make sense to me.
> 
>> On 11/25/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi Cherry,
>> 
>> Bookshare is no longer compatible with the BrailleSense as of the
>> update to there website a few weeks ago, or at least that's what
>> it says on their page about what's new with the new website.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Karl
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Cherry via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:01:57 -0600
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Bookshare
>> 
>> Dear members,
>> I'm using the Braille Sense U2 and recently I cannot access
>> Bookshare download on the Braille Sense anymore. Are any of you
>> here having the same problem?
>> Thanks.
>> 
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