date:20120805

Re: Read2Go Alternatives.

2012-08-05 Thread Tara Prakash

Whenever I tried converting books in to epub to read on iBooks, I found more 
pages in the book than there are paragraphs in it. I found it really a 
worthless exercise to convert to epub. May be some books convert better than 
others?

  - Original Message - 
  From: Richard Turner 
  To: viphone@googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 3:07 PM
  Subject: RE: Read2Go Alternatives.

  Not that I'm aware of.  the only real alternative is the same price and not 
as easy to use.
  If you want to jump through a bunch of hoops to say the $19.99 you could use 
the XML file from the zip file and then use Stanza to create an ePub version 
and read it in iBooks, or something else.  You could even  convert it to simple 
.txt and read it in a number of apps.

  If you are not familiar with Stanza, I'd search the archives of this group.  
There are detailed instructions how to convert Bookshare books using Stanza.

  HTH,
  Richard

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  From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Kevin W.
  Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 11:58 AM
  To: viphone@googlegroups.com
  Subject: Read2Go Alternatives.

  Hello folks,

  I'm just wondering if there are any alternatives to the Read2Go iOS app for 
reading Bookshare content on my iPhone.  $19.99 is a bit steep for an applaud 
if there are any free or low-cost alternatives I can use, I would be grateful 
for any suggestions.  

  Thanks,

  Kevin

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Not very well unless an update newer than 2.02 is out. I'd recommend
checking out MusicDock. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of
the serious xm app, but you can still get the channels. Here's a
podcast on it if you're so inclined to listen to podcasts.
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/musicdock-accessible-way-listen-siriusxm-radio-stations-your-idevice

Scott

On 8/4/12, Corey Michael Cook corey.coo...@gmail.com wrote:
Does the serious XM app work with voice over

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On Aug 4, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote:

Hi Keith,

You wrote (in the subject line):
Esther, have you used the World Factbook? Is it accessible?

Yes, the World Factbook by jDictionary Mobile is accessible. It's
designed for the iPhone, though, so if the original poster wanted to use
it on his iPad he would have to use the button for use fullscreen mode.
There's an extensive post that I wrote back in September or October 2009
on using this app. You probably don't need it, but at the time we were
all new to the iPhone or iPod Touch and there weren't facilities other
than the user guide for learning about apps and how to navigate their
interfaces. Like their dictionary app, the search box filters matches to
entries as you type in letters for a country. so you don't have to flick
through all the entries alphabetically. The only entries that you won't
get full information on are the Flag, Map, and Google Maps options,
because they use images. Phil wrote back to say that the Flag menu
option gives a text description of the flag (which is true), so you can
access that information if you flick to the text field. (It's actually
displaying in landscape mode, but I think you can get the information if
you hold your device in the normal portrait orientation and flick left a
few times. To get out of the flag entry you have to navigate to the Down
button and double tap twice.) The Map entry won't give you information,
but you can easily get out of it by flicking to the back button and
double tapping. Google Maps takes you out of the app to the Maps
entry, so you'd have to use the App Switcher to get back if you used that.
Well, it might be amusing to try to plan a route to a different country
and hear that it will take 22 days to get there, but you're probably not
going to use this feature.

If you want a more detailed description of the layout of this app and the
various ways to navigate the screen, go to the Google Groups page for this
list and type in search terms like World Factbook Esther navigate (and
make sure that Factbook is not corrected to Facebook). That should
bring up the thread and the post. For recent posts I could use the Mail
Archive search and give you a direct link, but for the earlier three years
the only posts I can find easily that way are the ones that I cc'd to the
macvisionaries list, and I only did that for a few posts.

The jDictionary Mobile folks developed both these apps for the Symbian
phones before they ported them as iPhone apps. Here's the URL for the
World Factbook at the App Store:
• The World Factbook 2012 ($0.99) by jDictionary Mobile
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-world-factbook-2012/id310064645?mt=8

HTH. Cheers,

Esther

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