Re: e-books with JAWS
- From: "JM Casey" <crystallogic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:09:35 -0400
Agreed here. Personally, I like text files because I prefer to read in braille
and so can easily transfer them to a braille display device. I still find PDF
files to be a pain in the arse with jaws..they work but not pleasantly; I just
convert them all to .txt files and delete the stupid .pdf, which is always
bigger than it needs to be.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Midence
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: e-books with JAWS
Honestly, though, if I had my true druthers, just a plain old .txt file is
just wonderful for an eBook. I read a lot of the stuff on Project Gutenberg
and much of it is in plain text format. Bookmarks, you say? Just put an odd
character combination where you stopped reading and do a jaws find to it. I
like inserting a string like khkj with a space on either side of it where I
left off and just deleting it when I resume reading. I've never had Jaws
encounter a problem finding it, the format is always accessible, and the file
size is tiny compared to just about anything else you can find. Just read the
Three Musketeers like that over the weekend using jaws with the Australian
English Karen voice which I find insanely pleasant to listen to never mind the
oddity of an American English speaker choosing Ausie English to read a book
originally written in French.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Shumate
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:01 AM
Subject: RE: e-books with JAWS
PDF is a good way to read Ebooks. I also found that if you can find ebooks
that are in a web based format it is easy to read them.
Laura Shumate
The Arc of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties
Harsco Center
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Harrisburg, PA 17103
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Advocacy & resources for citizens with intellectual and developmental
disabilities & their families
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of john.falter
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 5:20 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: e-books with JAWS
Which of these e-book formats works best with JAWS?
Adobe EPUB eBook
Adobe PDF eBook
Microsoft eBook
Mobipocket eBook
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