Thanks Yusuf
Very frustrating indeed. I suppose the best bet is to convert any book if
possible into txt format for the 9500 however I think at present Word in the
9500 doesn't scroll making it a very difficult and unpleasant task to read
constantly using the arrow keys. Maybe we'll be rescued soon!
Gordon
----- Original Message -----
From: "yusuf" <yusufaosman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 1:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Accessible Books
Hi Gordon, I'll try and help. There are basically two kinds of books that you can read on the PC or in any electronic form, protected and unprotected. Unprotected can come in any formats IE TXT, Doc and RTF. These are easily read with any screenreader and you shouldn't have any problems.
The protected type are a little more complex.
1. PDF ebooks. You have to use the Acrobat reader to read these, but I wouldn't bother as I have never been able to read anything that is in this format. I am alwayse told that the security settings are set too high to allow access. I did try a cracking program to gain access to one of these books but wasn't able to gain access.
2. Microsoft's own secure ebook format .lit. You can acces this using the microsoft ebook reader (don't know if theres a version for the 9500). The problem is you have to use microsoft's own speech (Mary, Mike or Sam) and last time I tried I couldn't find a way of stopping punctuation from being read out as well. I don't know about you but when I'm reading a novel I don't want periods and commas identified, it kind of gets in the way of the story. I also don't like those speech synths.
There are other kinds of protected books including the type that bookshare uses but if your in the UK you can't read their books anyway as their protected material is restricted to the US.
I hope this helps. I'm sorry to say the whole area of protected ebooks is very frustrating.
Yusuf
----- Original Message ----- From: "G. McFarlane" <gmcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Accessible Books
Hi
I'm afraid I've never taken the time to look into this and so I'm hoping some kind person will explain.
I would like to download some accessible books for reading on my computer or on my Nokia 9500. I had trouble before in choosing an accessible format and a program to play it on. Is Acrobat PDF reader or Ebook reader, or yet again the Microsoft Reader of any use accessibility wise for us now? At the stage I tried none of these programs were advised.
PDF, plain text, etc- which work with which accessible program? Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Gordon McFarlane
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