[gui-talk] Kindle books

[Cindy Handel]

I guess I just don't understand, with all the other sources for books out 
there, which are available to us, why try to make this particular device 
accessible.  If it was the only portable means of reading books, I could 
understand why we'd want to have access.  But, there's so much out there, 
already.

Cindy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Kindle books


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>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/cindy425%40ver
> izon.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/lauraeaves%40y
> ahoo.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/cindy425%40ver
> izon.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/andrew.baracco
> %40va.gov
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/loyrg2845%40gmail.
> com
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/cindy425%40verizon
> ._net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/tshelly%40optonlin
> e.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/k7uij%40panix.com

_______________________________________________
gui-talk mailing list
gui-talk at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
gui-talk:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/cindy425%40verizon.net