[nabs-l] Reading textbooks with the Amazon Kindle app

[Dan Burke]

The Tech gurus at the National Center gave the Kindle app a C minus for academic purposes, C plus for general reading in 2013.  Nothing has changed much since then  It would be acceptable as a third-tier choice for textbooks, with Bookshare or Learning Ally a first-tier.

>From a personal observation, I'd say it's quite adequate  for a suspense or thriller novel - something you just read straight through without pause for reflection.

Here's the review:

https://nfb.org/blog/atblog/grading-kindle-accessibility-ios

Best,
Dan

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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading textbooks with the Amazon Kindle app

Carlos,

The Amazon kindle and Amazon kindle app are very inaccessible in my option. I teccomend you try other means of accessing your materials. BARD, Bookshare, Audible, or even iBooks would be better. Another option is contacting the publisher and usually you can get the books as a PDF or Word doc. Hope that helps. 

Meaghan
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