You can subscribe to Bookshare, too, and maybe the series will be there. If so you can download as MP3 audio to play on your player, though the quality will be that of synthesized speech. Still, better than nothing.
Jane On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Jane, > > Thanks for the quick response, and that is what I thought everyone was so > excited about, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something as I am > not an avid reader, and just use the NLS player for all of my books, and they > offer more than enough content for me. Of course, the one series of books I > did want to read, they didn't have. Go figure. > On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Jane <juanitatig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have over 1,500 books in iBooks on my two iPads. I'll be happy enough to >> be able to sit at the computer and read them, too. :) Being able to read the >> books with a Braille display makes it all worth while, which you can do with >> iBooks. Of course I also have a bunch of books in the kindle app now, and a >> couple in Blio, and even Play Books, which is Google's reader. I also use >> VoiceDream sometimes, when I want to listen to a book at very high speed >> with a different voice than Samantha. Voice Dream only works on unprotected >> content, but that's still a *lot* of my iBooks collection! >> >> Jane >> >> >> On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> After going through all the announcements about the IOS and OS I was kind >>> of curious why the blind community is so excited about Ibooks coming to the >>> mac. I never use Ibooks on the iPhone, and am curious, do people use it for >>> more than just reading books. Am I missing something here? I am more of a >>> podcasts and news reader than book reader, so maybe that is why I didn't >>> get all of the excitement. Would love to hear what I might be missing out >>> on here. Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
