Well, thanks to both of you. I haven't thought of using it this way. I will give it a try. I am also experimenting with the stanza reader. However, this application doesn't seem to be updated recently.
Nektarios. On Nov 6, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Esther wrote: > Hello Nektarios, > > As Anne mentioned, you can avoid the VoiceOver crashes by just navigating to > the next page instead of interacting (Fn+Down Arrow to page down on my > MacBook Pro), which will also get you past the cover graphic. You do have to > read by page, but you can just press the right arrow key to do this for > successive pages, and you can make the font size small if you want more > content on a single page. Adobe Digital Editions Preview supports searching > in the text and setting bookmarks. It will work for reading DRM-free eBooks, > or books that have the Adobe ADE version of DRM, which includes books you can > buy from Kobo Books and OverDrive ePub books that can be borrowed by download > through public libraries in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K. and some > other countries. > > An alternate suggestion for reading ePub books without DRM, if you don't want > to use the Copy Last Spoken Phrase to Clipboard (VO-Shift-C) and paste into > TextEdit, is to use iText Express. The Express version of iText is free, and > available from the Mac's App Store. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 04:19, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Nektarios, >> >> If you just go to next page, it will read automatically, but if you want to >> look at the text closely, or read with a Braille display, then >> unfortunately, you have to use the Copy Last Spoken Phrase to Clipboard >> command (VO-Shift-C) to copy the page into a word processor such as >> TextEdit. The good thing is that you don't have to listen to the whole page >> before doing this. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> On 6 Nov 2011, at 14:16, Nektarios Mallas wrote: >> >>> Hello Anne. >>> How do you actually read something with this program? >>> I downloaded and installed it, but as soon as I try to interact with the >>> text, the program crashes on me. >>> Am I doing something wrong? >>> >>> Nektarios. >>> >>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Francisco, >>>> >>>> I use Adobe Digital Editions Preview to read ebooks on my Mac. It can read >>>> some protected books such as those from Kobo and it's free. >>>> >>>> Here's the download link: >>>> <http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/digitaleditions1-8/digitaleditions1-8_p1_mac_071811.zip> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Anne >>>> >>>> On 6 Nov 2011, at 02:27, Francisco Salvador Crespo wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Can you suggest me an epub ebook reader for Mac? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Francisco >>>>> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
