[gui-talk] Kindle books

[Ted Shelly]

What Amazon needs to do is to make their Kindle book format an open standard
that other device manufactures can build into their products.  If for
instance the iphone could use the books they would sell a lot more books.
Then devices for the blind like the Victor Stream could build that into
their products as well.  This would open up a huge new source of reading
material for us.  I imagine this will happen eventually, but it may take a
while.  Amazon is not an easy company to contact, but someone mentioned they
had a line to the Kindle developer.  Maybe we could start a letter/e-mail
writing campaign.

Ted  

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Cindy Handel
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books

What would be the advantage of adding text to speech to the Kindle Reader;
especially since we already have the Victor Stream?  The reader, itself, is
already more expensive than the Stream.  Adding speech would increase the
cost.

Cindy
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:10 PM
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I corresponded with the developer of this product and asked if it would be 
possible to add text to speech to this product and he replied that he would 
look into it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:47 AM
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It is the sighted guy's equivalant of the Victor Stream.  The display
looks just like a printed book, to give a familiar frame of reference.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Cindy Handel
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books

Well, I think the idea is that you can purchase and download books from
Amazon; put them on this reader and take several books along with
you...just as we do with the V R Stream.  I'm sure it is the software,
in the reader, which makes it work.  But, you have to have the little
screen and controls to read the books.

Cindy
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:30 PM
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so apparently you need to have this hardware reader in order to read a
kindle book, which is in some proprietary format? I would think there
would
be software that could do the job just as well...
Thanks.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books


Hi,

Kindle is a hardware reader.  It looks like a book, but has a screen
instead
of pages.  There are controls to allow the reader to turn pages and to
move
from one book to another.  That's really about all I know about it.
But, it
has no speech and is not accessible.  It's also more expensive than the
Victor Stream.

Cindy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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<gui-talk at NFBnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:49 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Kindle books


Hi all -- Has anyone had experience good or bad reading books on Kindle
sold
by amazon?
Is Kindle a software reader, or a hardware device like an ipod?
Is it accessible? I'd like to get an armload of books but since I would
be
scanning them anyway, I would prefer getting them in some electronic
format.
What is Kindle anyway?
I guess I'll go back to amazon and read up on it, but I wanted to ask
the
list first.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, and the books aren't on bookshare -- I checked.
--le


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