Hi Alfred
I am also very pleased with my KK. It took me some time to decide to buy
as
I didn't know if I would like listening to a book being read by synthetic
speech. But it's more than tolerable, and gives an additional resource.
It's thanks to George, Steve Griffiths and John Gallagher among others for
explaining what is involved. I just wish Amazon would make all their
Kindle
models fully accessible to make the experience even more pleasing.
Glad you are up and running.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Cairns
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On Behalf Of Alfred King
Sent: 19 November 2012 14:33
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
Jackie, it was your excellent comments on this list some few weeks ago
that
persuaded me to go ahead and get the KK. I am delighted with my purchase,
again thanks to yourself, as with NC10 and other items discussed on list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:40 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
Hi Alfred
I'm quite new to this, but I'll do my best as people were very kind in
helping me to be up and running with mine.
If you arrow down to a book, press the centre of the small square to
open it. Next, you need to turn on the TTS. Press the key to the
right of the space bar, then arrow down I think four times until you
hear "Turn on text-to-speech", and press the centre of the small
square again to activate.
Now your KK should start reading from the start of the book. To start
or stop continuous reading, press the space bar.
As a tip, I tend to flick the power switch to the right to turn off
the device when I have finished reading. I don't come out of my book
and back to the menu as it saves me having to turn on the TTS when I
return to the KK for my next session. Your place in the book is held,
either when you just put your KK into stand-by, or if you exit the
book beforehand. But remember that if you exit your book and go back
to the menu, you will need to turn on TTS when you return to your
book.
I would presume that if you are working with three different titles,
your place in each will be remembered each time you open them. As I
say Alfred, I am quite new to this, but I am really pleased I bought
one. I had hung off for so long, wondering if I could listen to a TTS
voice throughout a book. But there is a lot out there that isn't
available in audio or Braille formats, so it has become very useful to
have the KK.
Good luck.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Cairns
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On Behalf Of Alfred King
Sent: 19 November 2012 10:06
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
Hi All
I have my Kindle keyboard up and running so to speak by having speech
enabled and the 3 books I have purchased are there but sighted people,
one a Kindle user, was unable to open one of the books yesterday for
me to start reading. He put it down to not knowing how it worked with
speech but I am not so sure. Would someone be so kind as to write me
out step by step instructions as to how to choose one of my 3 books
open it and start reading it. At this stage I am interested in the
following, 1. Continuous reading but pausing when I am interupted.# 2.
Resuming my reading from pausing.
3 Navagating through the 3 books as I might like to be reading two or
three of them at the same time. I presume where I stop, when I start
that book again I will be in the same place as where I left off.
Thanks.
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