Re: [silk] reading scanned/digital text....
On Fri August 11 2006 9:31 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I used to use a Palm Tungsten device and plucker or PDBreader, but the phone is much easier to hold. One sound idea in this connection would be NOT to grow any older than 30 years (at the oldest). After that your eyesight starts playing up and you start looking for bigger and bigger text (eg one alphabet per screenful) or when you get to my age - braille starts getting more and more attractive. I am in the market for a PDA as big as a chair and as light as a pen and which fits into my shirt pocket. shiv
Re: [silk] reading scanned/digital text....
Hmmma google revealed that this is possible by converting a text e-book to an ipod note.. Should try this Srini Ramakrishnan wrote on 08/11/2006 07:01:14 AM: Has anyone used their iPods for reading a book? Would that be any better? Cheeni
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Listening is easier than reading :-). Is it possible to set the speech synth rate to auctioneer? I had tried this several years ago but gave up on it because listening is significantly, even annoyingly, slower than reading. -Dave (the text above takes about 9 seconds with the default Mac TTS)
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ashok wrote: For a while now I have been reading scanned / digital books on a laptop screen. Some of these books are out of print nowadays (or otherwise hideously expensive to purchase in printed form). Even after setting the glare and contrast factors to a comfortably low intensity, i get severe headaches after reading text from a screen for extended periods of time (its not my eye sight - i got that checked ) Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives? Also it is good to think of conciously blinking to rewet the eye. In front of computer screens people blink three times less often than off screen (and even less when constantly reading one text). That causes eyes to dry out. They fatigue and you get headaches. Since one tends to forget this I also use every now and then eye drops which contain only a saline solution (lachrymal liquids) to counter this. -b
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How about anti-glare glasses, which most opticians should be able to provide you with? They helped me a great deal. I also have an anti-glare screen, which obviously isn't as readily attainable as the specs, but the specs alone should really make a difference. Supriya.On 8/10/06, ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a while now I have been reading scanned / digital books on a laptop screen. Some of these books are out of print nowadays (or otherwise hideously expensive to purchase in printed form). Even after setting the glare and contrast factors to a comfortably low intensity, i get severe headaches after reading text from a screen for extended periods of time (its not my eye sight - i got that checked ) Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives? -- We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.-- T S Eliot (Little Gidding V)
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On 8/10/06, ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even after setting the glare and contrast factors to a comfortably low intensity, i get severe headaches after reading text from a screen for extended periods of time (its not my eye sight - i got that checked ) Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives? What format are these ? I used to read some text downloaded from Gutenberg in vim with white letters on black background. I prefered this to the default (black text on white background) of other text editors. Another alternative is to use Festival[1] text to speech software to read out text. Listening is easier than reading :-). I used to filter mail from some people and get festival to read out those mails to me sometime back. Useful when you are working. -- Vinayak [1] http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html
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On 10-Aug-06, at 11:14 AM, ashok wrote: Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives? Check out http://tinyurl.com/kywqe and http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad Cheers #!
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On 8/10/06, ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried wearing anti-glare spectaclesbut they are not so comfortable, and a bit heavy on the nose... You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating. These are like normal lenses and not like anti-glare clip-ons which are cumbersome. I am assuming that you are in India. These Carl-Zeiss lenses are available only in some optician outlets as of now. -- Vinayak
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At 2006-08-10 18:41:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating. My plain old non-Carl Zeiss lenses from Lawrence Mayo's also have an anti-reflective coating (I've had it for many years, and I like it). I gather you can get coated lenses from many other opticians too. -- ams
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On 10/08/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2006-08-10 18:41:35 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get Carl-Zeiss lenses with anti-glare coating. My plain old non-Carl Zeiss lenses from Lawrence Mayo's also have an anti-reflective coating (I've had it for many years, and I like it). I gather you can get coated lenses from many other opticians too. Yup. Anti glare adds about Rs500 to the cost of the lenses, IIRC. Mine are anti glare too and some regular brand I guess. -- b
