Thanks Jane. I had looked into Bookshare, but would first need to get a letter from my doc, and I think it was more costly than the amount of books I read in a year, but it might be something I want to look into again. On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Jane <juanitatig...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can subscribe to Bookshare, too, and maybe the series will be there. If > so you can download as MP3 audio to play on your player, though the quality > will be that of synthesized speech. Still, better than nothing. > > Jane > > > > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Jane, >> >> Thanks for the quick response, and that is what I thought everyone was so >> excited about, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something as I am >> not an avid reader, and just use the NLS player for all of my books, and >> they offer more than enough content for me. Of course, the one series of >> books I did want to read, they didn't have. Go figure. >> On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Jane <juanitatig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have over 1,500 books in iBooks on my two iPads. I'll be happy enough to >>> be able to sit at the computer and read them, too. :) Being able to read >>> the books with a Braille display makes it all worth while, which you can do >>> with iBooks. Of course I also have a bunch of books in the kindle app now, >>> and a couple in Blio, and even Play Books, which is Google's reader. I also >>> use VoiceDream sometimes, when I want to listen to a book at very high >>> speed with a different voice than Samantha. Voice Dream only works on >>> unprotected content, but that's still a *lot* of my iBooks collection! >>> >>> Jane >>> >>> >>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> After going through all the announcements about the IOS and OS I was kind >>>> of curious why the blind community is so excited about Ibooks coming to >>>> the mac. I never use Ibooks on the iPhone, and am curious, do people use >>>> it for more than just reading books. Am I missing something here? I am >>>> more of a podcasts and news reader than book reader, so maybe that is why >>>> I didn't get all of the excitement. Would love to hear what I might be >>>> missing out on here. Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
