[nabs-l] Reading textbooks with the Amazon Kindle app

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi,
Interesting observations. So you can do general leissure reading, but not 
academic reading on the app.
Is this because rewind and fastforward buttons are not labeled and that 
books are not marked up enough?

That's too bad kindle is not too accessible as kindle books are a big source 
of ebooks.

Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dan Burke via nabs-l
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 10:37 AM
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Cc: Dan Burke
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading textbooks with the Amazon Kindle app

The Tech gurus at the National Center gave the Kindle app a C minus for 
academic purposes, C plus for general reading in 2013.  Nothing has changed 
much since then  It would be acceptable as a third-tier choice for 
textbooks, with Bookshare or Learning Ally a first-tier.

>From a personal observation, I'd say it's quite adequate  for a suspense or 
thriller novel - something you just read straight through without pause for 
reflection.

Here's the review:

https://nfb.org/blog/atblog/grading-kindle-accessibility-ios

Best,
Dan

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 9:21 PM
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Cc: Roper, Meaghan <ropermeaghan at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Reading textbooks with the Amazon Kindle app

Carlos,

The Amazon kindle and Amazon kindle app are very inaccessible in my option. 
I teccomend you try other means of accessing your materials. BARD, 
Bookshare, Audible, or even iBooks would be better. Another option is 
contacting the publisher and usually you can get the books as a PDF or Word 
doc. Hope that helps.

Meaghan
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