Hi Kim,
Any hardcopy print book with a copyright is eligible for scanning and
addition to Bookshare! Happy scanning!
Mayrie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Loftis
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:53 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Better Way to Read Ebooks
Hi Monica,
LOL I must agree about that accessible Kindle PC app... I own it, and
while
I love being able to read a Kindle book, it's exceedingly simplistic,
particularly, as you say, for anything where I might wish to search to
reference something later. *smile*
So, for purposes of Bookshare eligibility, if I find a book that is
available as a Kindle publication, is it still eligible to be scanned
for
Bookshare account holders? I believe the answer is "Yes", but if I'm
wrong,
I'd love to be corrected prior to scanning something that I thought
was
eligible and turned out not to be.
Many thanks!
Kim
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From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:43 PM
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Better Way to Read Ebooks
Hi Susan. You've asked a good question. I'll share what I know, and
maybe someone else can fill in some things if I miss something.
Kindle books have a proprietary format and have DRM protecting them.
QRead can't open them because it is against American copyright law
for
the developer to break the DRM to open the file. We are allowed by
law
to do that individually for personal use if a book isn't accessible,
but doing that is a difficult process.
Books from Apple are different though. They are in Epub format. I
think they have some protection on them. I'm not sure because iBooks
is so accessible on the iPhone/iPad that I haven't tried opening them
in anything else. QRead just came out today, and I haven't
experimented with my books from Apple yet.
Kindle books are accessible if you use the Kindle for PC with the
accessibility plugin provided by Amazon. It's a clunky reader at
best,
especially for reading nonfiction and textbooks. Still, we can use
it,
and it does work. I'd love it if QRead could legally open Kindle
books. For now, that is not possible due to how Amazon puts DRM on
their books.
--
Monica Willyard
Visit my GoodReads book shelf at
http://www.goodreads.com/plumlipstick
On 03/02/2012, Susan Lumpkin <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Monica,
I'll probably give you your laugh for the day! Are Kindle or books
from the Apple bookstore considered to be a proprietary format or
are
they E-pub books? Hope you're not laughing too much!
Susan (smiling)
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica
Willyard
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:14 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Better Way to Read Ebooks
Hi everyone. I've seen many questions from blind people on this list
about how they can read different formats of ebooks accessibly and
how they can get the most from Bookshare's own books. We've talked
about how we're tired of running around trying to figure out how to
read various types of ebooks, feeling like we want to pull our hair
out. I found something new today, and I think it will help
Bookshare's users and blind volunteers. Check out
http://q-continuum.net/qread/ for a better way to do things. For the
first time, we have a program that can read pdf, epub, Bookshare,
text, and other types of books with one easy to use interface. The
program is called QRead, and it's on sale for $20 till CSUN ends.
There is a free demo version that loads 30 percent of your book so
you can see how it works.
One of the features I like best is the ability to keep your place in
books when you shut down the program. I also like that it can unzip
daisy books from Bookshare on the fly, letting you start reading
immediately without thinking about where to unzip your book.
I don't work for the developer or anything. I'm just really excited
to have one interface, one reader for the PC instead of trying to
sort out which program will open a particular type of book. It's
worth trying if you want better options for handling ebooks.
--
Monica Willyard
Visit my GoodReads book shelf at
http://www.goodreads.com/plumlipstick
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