[gui-talk] Kindle books

[Mike Freeman]

Like the Everly Brothers sang: "Dream; dream dream dream!"

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Ted Shelly <tshelly at optonline.net>
To: 'Ationfbnet GUI Talk Mailing List' <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: 2008/12/05 15:33:27
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books

>
>
> 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/every-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
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books
> 
> 
> 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>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books
> 
> 
> 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
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> 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
> y...j as we do with the Very Rather 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books
> 
> 
> 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.
> -comle
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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>
> To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List"
> <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.
> -comle
> 
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