Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-29 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
HI I totally love to read and apple has a fairly good selection. It will be nice to read ibooks on either my phone or mac and have the 2 sinc. Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 28/06/2013, at

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Jane will give it a try On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Jane wrote: > I think that's what I did. Go to > > www.bookshare.org > > and click on membership I think. If you are really stuck, try > supp...@bookshare.org > > They may take a bit to get back to you, but they can help you. > > Ja

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-28 Thread Jane
I think that's what I did. Go to www.bookshare.org and click on membership I think. If you are really stuck, try supp...@bookshare.org They may take a bit to get back to you, but they can help you. Jane On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey Jane, > > I thought Booksha

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Jane, I thought Bookshare was something completely different than NLS. Can you apply for a Bookshare account once you are with NLS? Thanks On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Jane wrote: > They don't accept your registration with NLS? > > Jane > > > > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Brian Fisc

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Kliphton A M
OH, let me also point out that you can add the epub books to iTunes and they will show up in your collections section of iBooks once you choose and sink the ones you want. The mobi whitch is for kindle cannot be imported, you actually have to have a physical kindle to import them to your librar

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Kliphton A M
Wow, that is a lot of books, especially if you bought them all. This is an invite to anybody who wants them. I have a library of 9000 books, in mobi format whitch is what the kindle reads, and epub whitch is what iBooks reads. If anyone wants this collection, contact me off list kliph...@gmai

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks. for letting me know. Yeah, there are only so many hours in the day, and while I did enjoy reading years ago, I always seem to be behind on all my other content. I would like to thank Google Reader for going away, as I spent plenty of time making sure all of my feeds got transferred. Damn

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Jane
They don't accept your registration with NLS? Jane On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > 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

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Brian Fischler
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 wrote: > You can subscribe to Bookshare, t

RE: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Becky Sabo
: Ibooks Coming to the Mac HI Brian, Yes, iBooks is mainly for reading books, though it's also a nice way to read any unprotected PDF files. It's generally a really good PDF and eBook reader, and it makes available a lot of books that aren't available elsewhere in audiobook forma

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Brian, Yes, iBooks is mainly for reading books, though it's also a nice way to read any unprotected PDF files. It's generally a really good PDF and eBook reader, and it makes available a lot of books that aren't available elsewhere in audiobook format or from other libraries that cater to th

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Jane
VO turns pages in the Kindle app, as well, thankfully! But yes, VoiceOver and various reading solutions are great. Jane On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > IMHO, iBooks and vo together are the most elegant solutions we have for > reading for us. VoiceOver turns pages as it rea

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Jane
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 wrote: > Hey Jane, > > T

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Kindle works very like iBooks on the iPhone. It even makes the same page-turning sound. I prefer Kobo on the iPhone as it reads straight through one chapter at a time without making that noise. And because it stops at the end of a chapter, I don't mind falling asleep listening since I know there

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Anne Robertson
I have well over a hundred books from Kobo on my iPhone and on my Mac, and I'm rapidly increasing the size of my Kindle library. I don't buy very many iBooks as I'm in France, and the choice of English language books is limited. So my iBooks library is limited to books in French, apart from the

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Pete Nalda
IMHO, iBooks and vo together are the most elegant solutions we have for reading for us. VoiceOver turns pages as it reads. Very elegant. Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/lpnalda Http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpna

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Devin Prater
Wow. You can reply off list, but what books do you read from iBooks? I'd surely not have enough money to buy 100 books or more. sent from my Mac Mini with iCloud. Devin prater email and iMessage: d.pra...@me.com or r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com Skype: devinprater msn: devinpra...@live.com On Jun 27, 20

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Brian Fischler
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

Re: Ibooks Coming to the Mac

2013-06-27 Thread Jane
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 no