Yes, you have to download the books on your PC using the older Amazon Kindle version that I provided. What is nice, is once you then also utility, you can right click on the downloaded Amazon Kindle file and select Codex from the context menu and convert to epUb, then have it put you in that folder so you can copy the .epub file to dropbox, or wherever you want to put it so you can add it to Voice Dream Reader. Yes, it is a few extra steps, but it keeps the books markup so any chapter markings are preserved for navigating in Voice Dream Reader.
I hope that helps. Richard “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.” - Mitch Albom from The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, page 1 On Mar 4, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Deidre Muccio <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Richard I've copied the link below. There's nothing earthshaking about this particular book but I thought I would give The introductory material free sample a look, Or maybe I should've written a listen. The book is by Judy Morgan DVM and it's called yen and Yang dog nutrition… BTW I did download it but there was nothing for voice over to grab onto, Just as was clearly stated on Amazon. I also noticed when I read what you copied from the web that that little utility is only available for the PC. I might I might load it on for the PC and use it in the event I can't find books elsewhere. I prefer to use the iPhone though. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077Y67VWS/ref=rdr<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2FB077Y67VWS%2Fref%3Drdr_kindle_ext_tmb&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc30f074f6d70482fff4c08d58225c931%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636558021153754911&sdata=9dUs7gcPQV0DnNThNxXkrxADn69WhnGujw1bLbPNaSQ%3D&reserved=0> Deidre On Mar 4, 2018, at 5:12 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If you have a Bookshare subscription, you may find most of the books there, but if there is one you want that is not on Bookshare, Kindle books can be a great resource. James Scholes has produced a little free utility that can convert a Kindle book into ePub that can be read in Voice Dream Reader so one could use any of those voices within Voice Dream Reader rather than reading in the Kindle app, which is my personal preference. Partly, because you can start a book reading and lock the device to save battery, whereas you cannot do that when reading in the Kindle app. Codex by James Scholes Here is a little section from his web site. I encourage any avid readers to follow the link below and read about it and install the utility. block quote A few years ago, I wrote a tutorial which guided people through the installation and configuration of software for the purposes of gaining access to books purchased from the Amazon Kindle Store. The guide proved popular, but it required heavy use of the command line, making it unsuitable and daunting for quite a lot of people, not to mention that it was an absolute nightmare to troubleshoot if anything went wrong. Which it frequently did. Subsequently, in 2014, I started to develop a small prototype application to make the process easier and more intuitive, not only for people wanting to read Kindle eBooks, but also for me when people needed help. I named it Codex, a word used from the 16th century onwards to denote, now ancient, manuscripts in book form. In the second half of 2015, I finally rewrote that prototype to include the functionality I wanted it to have from the start, and the software is now publically available to download. block quote end Please note, that you can only convert books you have purchased and only for your use--you cannot share them with others without violating the copyright laws and cheating the author out of their tiny royalties. In order to convert your Kindle books with Codex, you will need to install Kindle For PC version 1.17, which you can get here: http://turner42.com/KindleForPC-installer-1.17.44183.exe<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fturner42.com%2FKindleForPC-installer-1.17.44183.exe&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc30f074f6d70482fff4c08d58225c931%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636558021153754911&sdata=%2BsUlSbQXDgo4fyCqvUMwRPBBZC2cZDQZYRBTkJc42EA%3D&reserved=0> Here is a link to his web site: http://jscholes.net/how-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books-with-codex-2/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjscholes.net%2Fhow-to-remove-drm-from-kindle-books-with-codex-2%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc30f074f6d70482fff4c08d58225c931%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636558021153754911&sdata=KF27OnVjGPu6FHwlTuaAO1V7PcXQZ%2FgA6aK6rOG%2BErM%3D&reserved=0> Having said that, the vast majority of Kindle books can be read using VoiceOver and the Kindle app. I'd be curious about the book you said specifically said that was not available. You have to purchase the Kindle book on the Amazon site, then you can have it delivered to your Apple device, or down load it from your library. HTH, Richard “The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.” - Mitch Albom from The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, page 1 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Deidre Muccio Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2018 1:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Kindle free app Hello all I finally after all these years downloaded a Kindle free app for my iPhone. I went to the archives to see what people had to say about it. I saw that the last post was from May 1, 2013. And then there was a note from Amazon saying that accessibility features had been put in place. So today for instance I went to download a free sample of a book that was being discussed on one of my lists. The book was not available through any of the recording libraries for the blind or through book share. When I got to the description of the book, it clearly stated that the particular book had no text to speech or voice over capacity. I was impressed that I could get that information before downloading the book to find that out The hard way. Before I start buying books, I'm wondering who's using the Kindle free app and where I might find free samples to test it out. Are people finding books that can be read on the Kindle a valuable resource? It's interesting that the book sample I wanted to download was just published in December 2017 which may be why it was not converted to text to speech or voiceover. Who who is responsible for that conversion? Is it the publisher or is that Amazon? Deidre -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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