[bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer

  • From: "L. Sammons" <lsammons@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:05:13 -0700

Hello Terry.

I'm with Monica on this. I tried a couple of Daisy readers, Victor reader and Book Wizard Reader and neither of them work very well. Some books read okay and some didn't. The programs didn't have the same faults and it was pretty frustrating finding books I would work.

For the last couple of years I use the HTML files and Internet explorer. Actually since I don't have jaws or Windows eyes I use IBM home page reader as my browser. It Works pretty good.

Sam
----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 12:45 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer




Hi, Terry. You can download and use the Victor software from the downloads page on Bookshare to read books in Daisy format. I find that it's easier to skip the Daisy thing because Victor crashes every 10 minutes on my machine. I just read books in html. I download the Daisy format books. I use the Bookshare Unpack tool to unpack my books. It asks if I want to make an html file, and I choose yes. Then I just exit the unpack program and read the html file with Internet Explorer. I'm sure someone else can tell you how to use Victor if that's what you want to do.


Monica
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