Well I'm not in the business of producing books. Nor am I the Library
of Congress. Here are the steps:
For copyrighted work I need either permission of the copyright holder,
in writing, or an agreement to produce the book for an entity serving
the blind and print disabled. I have done books for other national
library systems for example.
I also need the text of the book in machine readable format, a text or
html file for example.
Then I need time. I work on these in my spare time so it take me a
while to take the text and make a perfect, and I mean PERFECT dtbook
xml file which I then run through eh DAISY Pipeline program, the Mac
narrator versions I created to generate the final book.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:54 PM, hank smith wrote:
what are the steps to do this? getting the permission etc, or is
that something you need to do?
thanks
Hank
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Scriptures in DAISY format
I could do them, The NIV and the NLT, but I would need both the
text fo those versions and copyright permission.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:05 PM, hank smith wrote:
can you look in to the following versions of the bible old and new
testiments of the niv, or nlt?
thanks
Hank
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:43 PM
Subject: Scriptures in DAISY format
I am please to offer the following for download. These DAISY
scriptures were produced by myself and the National Federation
of the Blind of Wyoming for the Wyoming Medical Center. Each is
navigable to the verse and are offered in DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/
NISO 2005 format.
The King James version of the Bible Old Testament, New Testament
and Apocrypha.
LDS (Mormon) Scriptures, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and
Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price (Including facsimiles
images.)
The Koran with numeric navigation to sections and phase
navigation to verses.
I would be happy to produce scriptures from other faiths, or
other versions of the above title provided I can find text of
those title which are not controlled by copyright or which the
publisher will grant permission.
These are valid DAISY formatted files with the audio in MP3
format in playable order meaning they could be played on an MP3
player but without the DAISY navigation. They are supplied
in .iso disk format to be burned onto CD or mounted to your file
system. These books were recorded using the Alex voice from
Macintosh OS 10.5 Leopard. I wish to thank Apple for making the
Alex and other Macintosh voices free to use for the production
of digital talking books for the disabled. All off the books are
offered free of charge.
The books can be downloaded from http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/
books follow the links under the heading "Scriptures"
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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