actually, knfb reading technologies will be coming out with a reading program called blio and it will work on a lot of devices and a few publishers have partnered with them and i hope more will follow.
On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Jess wrote: > "use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it." Nice idea, but more and > more books are being converted to E Text, and with apps like the kindle, you > pay the same price you would pay for a paperback in a physical book store. My > point is, when paperbacks and hardbacks are no more, what will we do to have > access to E Books? The time is now, folks. If there was ever a time to stand > up and demand our rights to have access to the same content as our sighted > friends, it is now. Not two months from now, not two years from now, not two > decades. The time is now. >> >> > On Jan 7, 2001, at 5:27 PM, sandi sørensen wrote: > >> use a scanner if you ***really*** wanna read it. >> I use my scanner constantly and hate wasting time on scanning them, but if >> you fly rc planes like i do and wanna be good thaht is the way to go, cause >> i simply can not get them as ebooks. >> >> >> >> sandi >> >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Jess wrote: >> >>> First, a question. >>> How many people like to read books? I know I do. How many people were >>> overjoyed that entire text books were going to be put online? I was. >>> However, a lot of EBooks cannot be read by any screen reader we have today. >>> Why? Simply put, the text of the book is contained within an OCR image, and >>> there is a special reader required to read them. These are not your >>> standard PDF files, and the books are protected by DRM, so there is no way >>> to extract the contents into programs like text edit. >>> As a book worm, I tried out the Kindle app for the IPhone, and was >>> delighted to find that a book that I wanted to read was available on the >>> Kindle store. However, my joy turned to bitter disappointment when I >>> realized that while I could navigate the book's table of contents, cover, >>> and chapters to an extent, the text was completely inaccessible. >>> Furthermore, my text books for my classes were not usable. Ladies and >>> gentlemen, I fear that unless we as blind consumers stand up, and demand >>> that these publishers put their text books into standard native file >>> formats, such as pdf or doc, we will lose a lot of access to books, and our >>> chances to succeed at college will be severely diminished. So, anyone have >>> any thoughts of what to do? >>> I thought about starting a petition to ask Amazon to require their >>> publishers to make their books usable, but figured that I would be a >>> laughing stock for doing so, as most publishers probably wouldn't have the >>> time to read, much less consider what I was asking for. >>> My point is, as long as E texts get more and more graphical, our chances to >>> read will be greatly impaired, and as more and more books become >>> exclusively online, we will lose access to the latest editions of books >>> altogether. Thoughts, anyone? >>> You may also skype me at pianomagic88 >>> >>> Jes >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
