Haha Jane, I totally agree. I can at least now read all of my myriod of kindle books on my I devices.
-----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Jane Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013 5:39 AM To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Kindle now accessible on iOS. You have to go to the Amazon site, but it's easy to search for books It's also easy to just want to buy them. Not so good when you are on a tight budget. I firmly make myself add paid books to my wishlist for eventual buying--like The Hunger Games trilogy which is $18 and some change. Jane On May 1, 2013, at 2:42 PM, cait furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have to go to the store on the amazon site, or can you download the books from the app itself? and, if you do have to go to the store on the amazon site, will your books show up in the app? > thanks, > Cait > > On 2013-05-01, at 2:08 PM, "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: > >> There are loads of free Kindle books. The usual classic such as >> Sherlock Holmes etc. >> Just go to the Kindle store on the Amazon web site. >> >> David Griffith >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net >> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of chris h (sky) >> Sent: 01 May 2013 19:00 >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: Kindle now accessible on iOS. >> >> Hello all >> great news about the Kindle iOS app but is there a free book out >> there I can try? Don't want to buy a Kindle book to start with plus I >> am not an avid reader anyway. Cheers! >> >> On 01/05/2013 16:27, David Griffith wrote: >>> As an update on my last post I did not hear the prompt for double >>> tap for menu. >>> It is not then necessary to go to the Home screen to get to controls. >>> You simply double tap anywhere on the reading pane to bring up the menu. >>> I now think that the app is very good. >>> The even better news is that I loaded Bad Science - book in which >>> speech has not been enabled on the physical Kindle and it read fine >>> under voiceover. It appears therefore that there is universal access >>> to Text to Speech under the Kindle iOS app. >>> >>> >>> David Griffith >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: David Griffith [mailto:d.griff...@btinternet.com] >>> Sent: 01 May 2013 16:04 >>> To: 'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility' >>> Subject: Kindle now accessible on iOS. >>> >>> Kindle has announced that it has made the iOS app accessible to voiceover. >>> >>> I have just tried the app and I think there may be limited cause for >>> celebration. >>> It is certainly possible to now download a kindle book and have >>> Voiceover start reading the text of the book with a 2 finger >>> upwards >> swipe. >>> In this sense it resembles ibooks. >>> The fact that Voiceover can read the Kindle text now is certainly a >>> major advance. >>> In one sense the app appears clunky though. I could find no easy way >>> of exiting the book reading window within the App. >>> A work around appears to press the Home Key and then re enter the >>> Kindle App from the Home Screen. On re-entering the app you appear >>> to be put into a window which allows bookmarking and navigation of >>> the Book you are reading by percentage. There is also a button to >>> return to reading the book and a Home button to return to your >>> library where you >> can download your books. >>> It would be far easier if there was a button accessible to Voiceover >>> which could return you to this screen without having to exit to the >>> iOS Home Screen. b >>> >>> It will need a little more experimentation but limited celebration >>> seems merited. >>> If anybody else finds a way around the awkward moving from the >>> reading pane to the app Home screen and book controls please post. >>> David Griffith >>> >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to >>> ensure >> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, >> virus and worm-free. 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