[nfbcs] Reading technical bookshare books on a Braille display

Nancy Coffman nancy.l.coffman at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 12:42:00 UTC 2016


What braille display are you using? The braille sense and braille note will allow you to download books your books in Daisy. You could also use their web viewer and connect the display to a computer.

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> On Oct 2, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Amanda Lacy via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> The only way I've been able to do this is by downloading the BRF, but
> then I'm stuck with their version of grade 1 where all the letters are
> capitalized and numbers appear like #AGB. I cannot download as plain
> text and use 8-dot Braille as I'm accustomed to doing for computer
> code. For those of you using Braille displays to read technical books,
> how do you work around this? Or do you use a different format, special
> software, etc?
> 
> Amanda
> 
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