You got to be kidding. I was excited about the ipad because all these books
would be accessible to us. Yes, I guess they are, but, having to clear memory
and or turning vo off and on to get to every page, well, that's a bit clunky.
I am sure though these issues will be addressed soon!
On May 20, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Esther wrote:
>
> Hi Yuma,
>
> If you have an ePub file from O'Reilly, just use Command-O ("Add to Library")
> as though it were an audiobook or music track. It will show up in your
> iTunes Library under Books. Then, just sync it to your iPad by checking it
> on the appropriate tab. (I don't remember the tab name).
>
> If you want to try to read it in Stanza, download the app, and when you've
> launched it double tap the "Get Books" button. The "Catalog" button should
> be selected, if not, double tap it. Flick right or read down to "O'Reilly
> Ebooks" (third entry in list) and double tap. Flick right or touch the "My
> oreilly.com Bookshelf" (sixth item in list) and double tap. You'll have to
> log into your account with user name and password. Find your book title in
> the list and double tap. You'll get a page with the list of available
> formats and their download sizes. (Some books are only available in PDF
> format). If there is an ePub format, and you find an entry for it, if you
> flick right there will be "Download (link image)" and then a second "Download
> to Stanza (link image)" just below it. Double tap the "Download to Stanza"
> link if you want to download to Stanza. Just below that will be a "Read in
> Ibis Reader (link image)". You probably only want to try one of these at a
> time. Using Ibis Reader requires you to create an account, and then create
> an Ibis local web account icon on your device, which will take up 50 MB. You
> download your ePub book to your Ibis Reader account in the cloud, then use
> your locally installed Ibis Reader to get your books from the cloud so you
> can read it even within an internet connection.
>
> I would try just using iBooks, if you can download the app from your iTunes
> Store. If you can't download the iBooks app yet, I would try using Stanza,
> but I would turn VoiceOver off and restart the iPad before I tried reading
> after you do the download. If you have the System Activity Monitor app, I
> would also use it to free memory. Then, when you start up Stanza, go to your
> Library and double tap to select the book. You'll have to double tap the
> center of the screen to bring up the menu, then double tap the table of
> contents button at the bottom left. (This button isn't announced on my iPod
> Touch, which is all that I have with me now to guide the directions). Select
> a chapter or introduction and double tap Try using a two finger flick down to
> read. On my iPod Touch, reading doesn't advance beyond the current page, and
> stops at every change of font. On the iPad, reading stops at the first page
> if the system is heavily loaded because you've been downloading large files
> or streaming video, etc. If I restart the device and clear caches (e.g., if
> I've been browsing heavily in Safari), I can read through each chapter in
> Stanza with VoiceOver. I thnk this may depend on the chapter length. If
> things are loaded, reading will stop before you get to the end of a chapter.
> You can toggle VoiceOver off, and just tap the right side of the screen to
> advance pages, if the current page stopped advancing. Then, you can touch
> the screen or flick down and VoiceOver will start reading again. The problem
> is, that like Kobo Books, your position in the chapter or section won't
> update with VoiceOver on, so if you stop midway and try to restart reading,
> you start at the beginning, unless you toggle VoiceOver off and tap the right
> side to advance pages. But then, you have to check how far you've gone. If
> you read through to the end of the chapter, VoiceOve will stop, and you'll
> need to double tap the center of the screen to bring up the controls and
> double tap the table of contents button at the bottom left to select the next
> chapter. Or, you'll be told "Page x of y" with the page controls, and you can
> toggle VoiceOver off, and tap the right side of the screen the correct number
> of times to get to the end of the Chapter. You won't be able to make
> VoiceOver read past the end of chapter. If you tap the right side of the
> screen to advance to the next chapter with VoiceOver off, you can turn it on
> again and start reading.
>
> The only app I've been able to use with the Acapela group voices is iSpeak
> It! and I had to copy and paste the text in from Simple Note. (I copied the
> selection on my Macbook, and pasted it into Simplenote with Notational
> Velocity -- both free apps. Then I opened Simplenote on my iPod Touch, set
> the rotor and copied the text, and pasted it into iSpeak It! as described in
> a post a couple of weeks ago. You can get French, Spanish, Italian, and
> German voices for $0.99 each. You can't exit the app and resume reading
> where you were, but you can set any speaking rate that the iPhone can handle.
> Alternatively, you can try Read2Me, which only works with the English
> voices. It's been updated, so you should be able to upload text through
> Google Docs, but I haven't tried this. You can now speed up the voice
> somewhat (5 settings, with 3 being the normal rate).
>
> HTH.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On May 20, 2010, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Just to add some fuel to the fire i am feeling right now about books i cant
>> read, i had the following questions:
>>
>> Has anyone successfully placed epub files into their ibook app on the ipad?
>> If so, what is the procedure? is it just importing epub books in itunes or
>> is it a bit more complicated than that?
>>
>>
>> Secondly, has anyone found any app either from acapella or other licensees
>> of acapella coming out with a natural sounding e-book reader?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Yuma
>>
>>
>>
>> "Light has no value without darkness"
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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