[bookshare-discuss] Re: on book wizard.
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:12:36 -0500
Duane,
The reason why you find Bookshare books tricky is because each book you
download is compressed with your password. simply trying to rename it with
a .zip extention will not help.
Pratik
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From: duane iverson [mailto:diverson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:58 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on book wizard.
I recently bought book wizard. I need to read some RFB and D books so I had
to chose a digital reader somewhere. Also, when I get my bible project
going. I will need a daisy talking book producer and will probably go with
Book Wizard. I already use APH's studio recorder program.
Anyway I proved to my own satisfaction that book wizard will read bookshare
books.
Now I do not have the bookshare unpack tool. I have Kurzweil version 11
which does just fine with bookshare books so I haven't kneaded the bookshare
unpacker.
I went to my kurzweil download file and took one of the bookshare books
there that I had already opened with Kurzweil. I renamed the book from
mybook.bks to mybook.zip. I found I was able to open the book using windows
XP and windows explorer. I copied the files that resulted in to another
directory and was able to click on the *.opf file with book wizard. I could
then read the book. Things didn't work out perfectly, but that may be
because I am inexperienced with book wizard and don't know how to navigate
very well yet.
Well, I said to myself, if Windows XP opens a zip file?. . .
So I went to the sight, downloaded The Dark Demensions by A. Bertrum
Chandlar renamed the file "dark.zip" and tried unzipping this with Windows.
NOTHING DOING!!
I renamed the file dark.bks, opened it with Kurzweil. Kurzweil asked me for
my password. After doing this I closed the book, renamed the file back to
dark.zip, then had no trouble unzipping the files in to another directory.
Then book wizard would read the book.
Moral of the story? Bookshare files are trickier then I am.
Do I recommend book wizard? If you don't need to read RFB and D books and
you got Kurzweil or Openbook stick with them. Book Wizard isn't worth the
extra money. You do however get one of the A T and T Natural Voices, Mike,
with the CD..
I note that book wizard works with my Scansoft Voices from JAWS and my
Voiceware voices from Kurzweil but doesn't see Eloquence at all. I have two
versions one from Kurzweil and one from Jaws on my system.
Sincerely Yours:
Duane Iverson
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