I purchased voicestream for my IPod last night and it is so far doing a good job of reading an rtf book. The app cost £6.99 and comes with Heather Acappella voice. I downloaded Rachel as an additional Acappella voice for £1.49.
You can bookmark and select text. The application remembers where you are in the book when last played. The navigation controls are like a media player though, with rewind by 30 seconds and forward 30 seconds. You can lock the screen and the book will continue reading which makes it ideal if you want to shove your IPod in your pocket and carry on listening. The blurb says you can read unprotected PDF doc files and Epub files as well as text and RTF files. So far it is the best eBook reading solution I have come across. Not sure it would be suitable for study purposes but fine for reading general books. The high quality Acappella voices does mean it approximates to an Audio book experience. There is a review on the apple Vis site which commends most aspects of accessibility. I personally have not come across any major issues yet. It apparently can interface directly with Project Gutenberg, Book Share and drop Box but I have not explored any of this yet. I have simply emailed books to myself and opened them from within the app there. David Griffith David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Phil Halton Sent: 09 February 2013 14:11 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: RTF books on the iPhone. I use .rtf files in the "I like to read" app with the switch set for reading "rtf as txt". It's the only way I've ever been able to get the iPhone to read documents properly, reading paragraphs as a chunk without breaking them up in odd ways. its works well for me, but I'm not even sure the app is still available. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian McNamara" <ianmcnamar...@gmail.com> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:08 PM Subject: RTF books on the iPhone. > Hi all, is there anyway you can read rtf documents on your iPhone. 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