[bookshare-discuss] Re: Comparison Shopping
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:33:46 -0500
Sounds like you still need to unpack it with the bookshare unpack tool.
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From: siss52
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:50 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Comparison Shopping
Speaking of Braille files, I tried downloading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy,
which is a public domain book. Well, I clicked on the BRF digital file, as I
do for other books, and there was something different about it. I downloaded
it, but when I opened it on my Braille-Lite, I got garbage, and the extension
said .bks instead of .brf. Anyone clue me in on this?
Thanks,
Sue S.
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From: Maria Kristic
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:53 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Comparison Shopping
Sure, the PACMate can be used to read Bookshare content. A free Bookshare
Unpack Utility is available from the Freedom Scientific Web site, allowing one
to directly unpack BKS files which one may download directly to the PM or copy
over from a PC; the interface of the PM BKS unpack utility is similar to the PC
one in some respects. BRF files can be read in FSEdit, the FS-developed word
processor found on the PM in addition to Word Mobile, and one can purchase the
FSReader DAISY reader to read Bookshare DAISY content-and it will also read
RFB&D books again on the Omni (it does still on the desktop version of
FSReader, a separate product purchase, and it did on the classic X-series
PACMates, but that hasn't yet been restored on the new Omnis) once RFB&D gets
around to testing it on the Omni, confirming that it doesn't work like they've
been hearing from quite a few people including myself, and issuing a corrected
User Authorization Key for the user to purchase from them and use to authorize
FSReader to play RFB&D material.
As for mainstream players, sure, if you can get the BSO content in to MP3
form (using, say, Kurzweil or OpenBook; or, getting the BRF file in to TXT
using a Braille translator like the free WinTrans, or electing to unpack an
HTML version of a DAISY book and then opening that in a program which can
convert it to MP3, such as the shareware TextAloud, freeware DSpeech, or a Web
site like ReadTheWords.com), then, you'll be able to play them on one. One
relatively cheap player which has gotten some good reviews in the blindness
community is the Creative Zen Stone-for reviews, check out AFB's AccessWorld
and www.hartgen.org--at, I believe, $40 (don't own one, so going on memory RE
the price).
HTH,
Maria
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From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx [mailto:Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:34 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Comparison Shopping
Thank you all for your praise for the Victor Stream and I want to encourage
anyone else who may have comments to continue to make them, but I did not name
my subject comparison shopping for nothing. Have any of you had experience with
any other portable devices for reading Bookshare books? Do I understand
correctly that the Pacmate can be used for that purpose? How about MP 3 players
that are not made especially for us blind people? Those would be a lot cheaper.
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