[bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:04:45 -0600
True enough. A notetaker would work fine. I don't happen to have one in
working order at present. But I don't like to be glued to a desktop. I
actually use my Book Port for most reading on the go. Around the house, I
also have another thing I do -- I have an FM transmitter plugged into my
pc's headphone jack and I tune it into a good clean frequency and in the
house and around the yard I listen to a variety of sound things, Various
files on the hard drive, onine sttreams of other things audible. I use a
little portable radio or the home stereo to tune in and listen to the pc's
output. And that FS Reader I mentioned is the software I use for the pc to
read the Daisy files.
I'm always looking for other ideas though.
Thanks.
Rik
-----Original Message-----
From: david [mailto:davidb521@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:24 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer
Why not use a notetaker if you have one?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:37 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer
>I purchased a rather inexpensive software program last fall, called FS
> Reader from Freedom Scientific when updating my copy of JAWS. It
> navigates
> very well using right and left arrow to open and close folders, then TAB
> to
> go from the folder view to list view, and up and down to go through the
> list
> of items if in folder view or up and down or the other regular reading
> commands when in list view. I use it for both Daisy books I get from
> Bookshare or the newspapers. Of course it is not a talking software
> program. It requires the use of a screen reading software of some kind.
>
> Only other thing I had to use before was the Victor software and It seemed
> to really have a lot of problems and I only used it very occasionally. My
> pc froze up a few times with it and after that I used HTML and JAWS until
> I
> got this FS Reader.
>
> Rik
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. Sammons [mailto:lsammons@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: reading books on the computer
>
> 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
>> Visit my blog at: http://plumlipstick.livejournal.com
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