[real-eyes] Re: Qread, Anyone Use This?

  • From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:52:49 -0500

Very handy app; open source too--I think. 
Now, if it would only strip off the security restrictions these people think
they need to place on the files.  



-----Original Message-----
From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Reginald George
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:13 PM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Qread, Anyone Use This?

You only need Calibre to strip the DRM out of Nook and Kindle files, and
It's free!  It will convert between Mobi and EPub.  It's pronounced
Calleaebray.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Fettgather
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:08 PM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Qread, Anyone Use This?

This program looks very interesting and potentially very useful.
Now, if it would strip the DRM out of Barns and Noble Epub or out of Amazon
kindle's proprietary ebook files, I would buy it for sure!



On 8/21/12, Mitchell D. Lynn <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This program looks promising; however, I don't think the author is 
> doing himself any favors with the limitations of the trial. His trial 
> limits you to what amounts to a screen or two of text then stops in its
tracks.
> That's
> like the car dealer who lets you test-drive the car but won't let you 
> take it off the lot.
>
> I will say Q Read did show me text in a file that Accessible Acrobat 
> shows only a series of question marks for. And Acrobat won't allow me 
> to save as text. The file is secured; nor will any other application I 
> have convert the file. I assumed it was comprised of scanned images; 
> it is one of those kids craft type books I purchased online.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mitchell D. Lynn
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:49 AM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Qread, Anyone Use This?
>
> Program costs $30.
> http://q-continuum.net/qread/
>
> QRead: The Accessible eText reader from the future!
>
> It's no secret that the way that the world consumes books has been 
> changing.
> EBooks, once a niche market, have absolutely exploded in popularity. 
> There are hundreds of thousands of titles available in various formats 
> these days, ranging from childrens books to textbooks for 
> postsecondary classes. For the blind, this wealth of new material has 
> offered a bit of a mixed blessing.
> On
> one hand the amount of new content available to us truely cannot be 
> overstated.
> But if you have any experience reading books as a blind person, you're 
> surely familiar with some of the problems we face:
>
> . Books are in a variety of formats requiring many different 
> applications to open.
> . There is no standard way of keeping your place in a book, especially 
> if your computer crashes!
> . Navigation, especially by large amounts is often impractical.
>
> For these and other reasons, I set out to develop QRead, which greatly 
> improves the book reading experience!
>
> Supported formats
>
> . PDF: QRead has industry leading PDF parsing support for extracting 
> text streams from PDF.
> . EPub: Easy access to all textual content from an ePub file.
> . Bookshare Daisy: Open both zipped and unzipped bookshare Daisy files 
> with support for requesting the bookshare user password.
> . Microsoft Office Word 2007 DocX
> . Microsoft Compiled HTML Help CHM files . Plain text files
>
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