[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
- From: "Fettgather, Jim" <jfettgather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:02:46 +0000
Almost certainly, they expect that most people will want to use navigational
features and the Acapela voices, so that could be the reason that all books
appear to download in Daisy format.
I really like the app, but when using Voiceover to read a book, there's no way
to go to a specific page or section.
At least, not that I can locate.
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From: Robert Beach [mailto:rbeach@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:24 AM
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Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first
impressions
Interestingly enough, when I downloaded a book from the Bookshare website, I
was not given the option to choose a format. It automatically downloaded the
DAISY format. There may be an option under settings to set the format you want
to download, but I haven't been there to look yet.
Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66112
913-288-7671
rbeach@xxxxxxxxx
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Behalf Of Reginald George
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:17 AM
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Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first
impressions
I have yet to hear of anyone getting this to work on the Touch yet. In fact
reports so far aren't good. Even when they turn off sound they are getting out
of memory errors. Someone should have caught this. They will probably fix it
though. I am wondering about brf files and what all formats this will work for.
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From: "Robert Beach" <rbeach@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:20 AM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first
impressions
My understanding from reading the description is that you can use VO instead of
the included voices. However, I could have misunderstood what I read. I
haven't tried to do this yet.
Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66112
913-288-7671
rbeach@xxxxxxxxx
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From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Reginald George
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:18 AM
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Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
Some notes on the new $20 Bookshare app for the IPhone. I still think it's
worth it. Especially if you can use it to read EPub files as well.
----- 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 m ay 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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