Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-12 Thread Carter Temm
thanks, I will download this and give it a try. It still is strange to me the difficulties of reading one of these books on a mac. On most other commonly used platforms take iOS and windows for example, there are ways to do this. Windows with read out loud, and iOS with voice dream. > On Apr 12

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-12 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Sure, here’s the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itext-express/id416550249?mt=12 I text express is basically a better version of text edit, so it handles .rtf files as well as a bunch of other file types. If you open up the .brf file in i text express(you can set this in the information

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Carter Temm
Hi, How does i text express work, and where can I get it? I would love to have a way of accessing bookshare books on the mac as well. On windows there is another program you can use called read out loud, but don't think their is a mac equivalent. On 4/11/16, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > Hi, > I downl

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Ugh!! sorry about the horrible typo.. I meant safari.. Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Bill Dengler wrote: > > Hello, > Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? > Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to > this as well… > > Thanks, > Bill >> On Apr 11, 201

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Bill Dengler
Hello, Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to this as well… Thanks, Bill > On Apr 11, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Hi, > I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. > > I read them

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. I read them with my braille display in either i text express or in sasarafi, depending on the format of the book. some say you have to have your display set for computer braille.. hth, Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Al