[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
- From: "Kimberly A. Morrow" <morrowka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:26:56 +0000
I was glad to read this review of the new Bookshare for Ipad product, before
purchasing it. This information has caused me to seriously rethink purchasing
the app at this time, with the hope that the app will undergo significant
improvement. I have quite a number of apps running at any given time, and I
don't think I am willing to forfeit that luxury.
Kimberly Morrow, PhD
Communications Specialist
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:32 AM
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Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
I shouldn't forward so quickly.
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From: David Tanner
To: aiphone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
Apparently you can change and use VoiceOver from within the settings in the
app. Have you checked there. From the information I read about it just now
there is VoiceOver support, and I would find it hard to believe that VoiceOver
use was not included since the description on the app store says that you can
use a Braille display with it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall
To: aiphone
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:51 PM
Subject: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
Hi all,
I just got the Read2Go app for Bookshare and other daisy books and
grabbed a book. It does what it says: it has two voices, the same ones
available in the desktop Bookshare application, which can read
content. You can search within your bookshelf, or search the bookshare
site and download books. Once downloaded, you are asked if you want to
"read now" or not in an alert. While reading, you have playback
controls along the bottom of the screen (next/previous phrase/section,
and play/pause in the middle). The top has a "bookshelf" button, plus
navigation and bookmark buttons. There is also a settings button, but
I am not sure if this changes global settings or just settings for the
book being read. Overall the app works well, and has a refreshingly
simple interface. However, I have already run into a few issues, some
of which may make some people re-think getting the app. Please
understand, though, that it may well be that I simply don't know how
to do something and the below may not be actual problems at all.
1. The text may be displayed on the screen, but vo can't see it. This
means that you can't use vo navigation to review the text. This has
serious implications: you can't see how something is spelled, you
can't use vo speech to read a book, and you can't read a book in
braille on a display.
2. As stated in #1, vo can't be used to read the text of a book. While
the voices that come with the app do sound good, they take up so much
memory that I was advised to close some apps on my iPod Touch 4th gen
when I had had a book open for a few minutes. What really worries me,
though, is that I only had the "settings" app in the App Switcher,
nothing else. It would be great to be able to use vo when my iPod does
not have the ram to support the Read2Go tts.
3. Double tapping a book always goes to a 'details' page, from where
you must find the "read" button. There seems to be no setting to just
open a book right from the bookshelf.
4. Again, ram is a serious problem. With no other apps running, I
tried going into the settings for a book and was told to close other
apps. When I tapped OK on that alert, I was returned to my bookshelf,
not to my book. This is going to be a deal breaker for iPod users, in
my opinion, unless there is some way to not use the third-party tts
voices.
Again, the app works well and does what it says it will do. No doubt
iPhone and iPad2 users, with their 512mb of ram (to the iPod's 256mb)
will not have these memory problems, at least not as badly, but the
lack of vo support when actually reading the text of a book is
certainly a concern. Yes, I understand that I may have missed fixes
for these, and I also understand that this is the very first release
of the app. I just wanted to get these notes out there for others who
investigate this app.
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Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
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