Re: Epub readers for windows
@7: no, balabolca is surely not command line. Just imagine trying to read through a book like gardens of the moon from the malazan series this way, pressing enter on each end of page, waiting for it to load, then using the review cursor of nvda to read. No, it's too horible. No one would do that, it's too grose, even for a command line fan like me.
the interface is not horible, the basic things are very easy to master. For example:
*to open a book for reading, create a new file first, by pressing ctrl+n, or using the file>new option. Note: if you opened balabolca for the first time, or you close all books on closing of balabolca, this is not necessary. Then, go to the file menu, then click open. Here you can select from many file formats, one of the advantages of this tool over many others. Once you have chosen your file, click open and...enjoy reading!
*sometimes, you maybe want something to read your books, while you do something else on the computer, or, in contrary, you aren't at the computer but would still like to hear it, you found a great sappi voice for reading books and want to try it without messing with your screen reader settings...creating profiles specifically for adobe reader, etc. In this case, balabolca has you covered as well. with f5, you start reading. With f7, you stop it. Somewhere in the main window, you'll find a tab that says something like sappi5 tab. Here you can switch between tts platforms present on your machine(sapi5, sapi4 and microsoft speech platform) After that, you'll find a list to select a voice to use, sliders for rate, volume, pitch, etc.
That should be enough for now, if you want more, balabolca has a website and a manual included. Plus, you can post here if you decided that you really want to go for balabolca, instead of the other solutions mentioned here.
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