[guispeak] Re: DAISY vs .lit
- From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:11:37 +0200
I always thought that daisy will remain a standard for e-books for the
blind community. Microsoft defined another format because they wanted a
way for people to read books in various devices such as pocket pcs etc.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is not the only one that has a proprietary
format.
I am still looking for a way to extract text from lit files to read them
with standard tools. Anyone that has any info on this please post here.
Please, don't lecture me about the legality of things because I had
enough of this lately. My only purpose is to gain access to content not
to distribute staff or anything.
Kind regards.
Nektarios.
-----Original Message-----
From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Laura Eaves
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:36 PM
To: guispeak
Subject: [guispeak] DAISY vs .lit
Why did MS decide to go to the trouble to define .lit in the first
place? I suppose it's money, as always, but that makes the format
proprietary and
therefore if accepted will drive out of business all the DAISY reader
producers.
Now maybe that's what Microsoft wants, but I think again that people
should
have a choice.
Just my thoughts.
Does .lit provide anything that DAISY doesn't? and aside from braille
support, does it have deficiencies compared to DAISY?
Take care.
--le
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