that's good then, some of those volunteers were awful, you would have thought they would have tested them before hand for quality of reading etc. i don't know why rnib has books read by synthesisers, if people wanted that they could just get jaws or one of its counterparts to read.
Husna-----Original Message----- From: roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 7:53 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: audio book questions Calibre books haven't been read by volunteers for years now. They use the professional readers same mostly as RNIB do. In fact on each month's list of new releases from RNIB there are a good few books read either by volunteers, that can sometimes be really terrible, or by synthetic voices. Calibre don't do this as all books I've looked at are named readers. All new books are now on CD's as they've phased out the cassettes. They also do most titles on USB memory sticks if that suits you better. They also do a streaming service. They have around 10,000 books and are being added to all the time. Roger-----Original Message----- From: Husna Begum
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 1:40 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: audio book questions hi, are calibre books still read by volunteers? and how many books do they have? Husna-----Original Message----- From: Michael A Ray
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 5:52 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: audio book questions The RNIB talking book service is good and fast and they issue a newsletter either on CDROM or email telling of new titles. Calibre audio library costs thirty five quid for life membership and they are also fast and the site has news of new books and you can stream some online and create a wish-list. Despite some negativity on here about Calibre they offer a good service and have a big library. On 07/03/2014 11:04, Adrien Collins wrote:
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