[blindkid] Amazon Kindle and Bookshare question

holly miller hollym12 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 00:38:06 UTC 2009


Oh good grief, I'm a dummy!
I really did read the FAQ but it wasn't clicking in my fried little mind
that the DAISY/Victor software delivered text too.
I've got it working now, thank you so much!!!

Holly


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Robert Jaquiss <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Hello Holly:
>
>    I suggest you download the software package from BookShare that reads
> DAISY books. This will display the book on a computer screen. Then use Magic
> or Zoomtext to enlarge the screen. If Hank needs to read material visually,
> leave the brf files alone. If you have more questions, let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert Jaquiss
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "holly miller" <hollym12 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)" <
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> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Amazon Kindle and Bookshare question
>
>
>  Ok, I think I'm seeing the problem here.
>> We just got our approval to use bookshare and now that I can sign on, I
>> see
>> very few titles are available as HTML or TXT files, I thought they all
>> were.  The majority of books are just BRF or DAISY which isn't going to
>> work.
>>
>> Can BRF be converted into any sort of text file?  For visual reading on
>> the
>> computer...I'm not concerned about Kindle use at this point.
>>
>> Our school is banking on being able to download any title from Bookshare
>> for
>> Hank to read visually at whatever font he wants.  Now that I can actually
>> access bookshare, looks like that plan isn't going to work.
>>
>> Holly
>>
>



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