I also bought fs reader and find the desktop version of it rather sluggish
and quirky. Have you had any trouble with it?
----- 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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