[NABS-L] for those of you who have used Vital Source ...

Mon Aug 12 10:08:40 UTC 2019

Thank you Miranda,  I did see a book shelf app so I will have to download
that, in terms of the searching thing, yeah I guess I will have to look on
how to search for a certain term or something like that, and hopefully I
can have it just as a document, I don’t want to have to open an app all the
time to look at my book. If I’m not wrong, you’re from Florida correct?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:04 AM Miranda <knownoflove at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> Let me try to answer all of your questions. First, I believe there is some
> confusion. VitalSource it’s not the same as Amazon Kindle or audible. In
> fact, it is it’s own entity. The website is: www.vitalsource.com, and the
> app is found by searching for VitalSource on the App Store. The app shows
> up as bookshelf in the App Store and also when you download it to your
> iPhone.
> As far as navigating a book on your iPhone, yes you do flick left and
> right as on a normal website or other screen. You are also able to search
> your book via the website and/or the iPhone app. As the search field on the
> website is dynamic, meaning that it updates as you type, I would suggest
> typing your search term into a plane text document, copying it, and pasting
> it into the search edit field on the website. This way, your screen reader
> does not slow down or lose its place due to the dynamic search field being
> automaticly updated. As I do not use a braillenote touch, I am not sure as
> to whether or not you can download the app from the Google play store to
> your device to use it. That would be pretty cool if you could though. I
> also do not know if this would work, but you might be able to go to the
> VitalSource website, log into your Bookshelf on your computer, and print
> your textbook to PDF in order to download it onto your braillenote Touch.
> You might lose access to navigation inside the book, so know that said PDF
> file may render navigation as far as headings and such difficult. However,
> if you are familiar with simply using a word document that does not contain
> such navigation, this may not be a concern for you.
> I hope this helps, and have a successful semester!
>
> Best wishes, Miranda
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 11, 2019, at 10:47 PM, JASON ALAMILLO <leadershipjba at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all, I also had some questions about vital source. So I am under the
> impression that you have to listen to it, either on their own version of
> audio or on the audio provided by VoiceOver, but from Miranda’s post, it
> seems like you can also just flick the screen to the left and right as
> though you are reading messages or websites. Which assumption am I correct
> on? I also want to know, as I have always just had my books transcribed
> into word documents by the DRC, and I have read them on my BrailleNote
> Touch or computer, is that also a possibility on this app? And if so, which
> format do the books come in if they are downloadable in a way to have them
> in this format instead of having them on a website or app all the time? If
> there is no way to keep them as formats that can skip having to use the web
> or the app all together any time we need to read our books, how can we
> search for paragraphs, words, quotes, and any other thing we may need
> within a book? When I went to download the app, on my phone it now says
> audible, is that the one we have to download or is there another one? And
> do we have to log in with our amazon accounts? If I have the app wrong,
> could someone please share the right one to this email conversation so I
> and others can download it? Thank you for all your help.
>
> On Aug 9, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Miranda via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
> I have used this site quite frequently, and I recommend it to others. It
> is accessible via the website and the iPhone app. You would navigate the
> textbook as you would any other site. I would probably recommend Google
> Chrome as the most useful browser for navigating textbooks on vital source.
> As far as embossing books, I cannot personally speak to this as I have not
> done so.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 9, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Mike Gilmore via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just found out about this list and decided to join.
>
> I'm about to begin seminary.  I recently found out about Vital Source.  I
> have a question about it (I hope to use it if I can't find what I need on
> bookshare or Learning Ally or christianbook.com).
>
> For those of you who have purchased or rented books from Vital Source, I'm
> curious to know about reading the books online (how it's done, what the
> best browser to use is, etc.)  I'm also curious to know whether there's a
> way to emboss these books.
>
> Thank you for all of your help ahead of time.  If you know of any other
> sources other than Vital Source, Learning Ally, audible, Christian book dot
> com, and bookshare where it may be possible to obtain books in formats
> other than hardcopy print, please feel free to chime in.
>
> Mike
>
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