[access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 10:35:56 -0000
Hi George,
These nav keys won't work while the book is reading, you can't even move by
page. But see my previous messages regarding the wonderful shortcut
shift-symbol.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: 19 November 2012 12:28
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Kindle Keyboard - How To Read A Book
Hi Jackie and Alfred,
Yes, you can have many books in progress, and your place will be
remembered in each one.
I have to say here that navigation within some books can be hairy, to
say the least, even to the point of being impossible.
This is NOT, I repeat, NOT Kindle's fault. Although I am inclined to
lean towards blaming Amazon.
I have been doing quite a bit of Kindle/e-book creation myself of
late, and use Calibre E-book management to do this.
What is very important is what I shall loosely call "Chapterisation".
This is somewhat different from navigation from the Table of Contents,
and requires a specific HTML code to be placed appropriately. If this
is done correctly, you can then use the right and left side of the
square navigation key to move forward and back a chapter at a time.
Otherwise, if you want to look at individual Table of Contents
entries, you can press the centre of the square key to get to an
entry, but have to press the back key to return to the table of
Contents again.
Sighted users will also tell you that with some books, the progress
bar which appears below the percentage at the foot of the screen does
not show chapter breaks. It is either blank, or full of breaks. As a
sighted user, I do like to see my progress showing against a book's
chapter, knowing how much I've still to read to reach the end of the
chapter before I turn the light off at night.
George.
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[mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie Cairns
Sent: 19 November 2012 11:40
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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[mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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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