Bookshare books on the Mac

2012-10-03 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi All, I am trying to download a book from Bookshare on my Mac and the xmls format is not working. Does anyone have any ideas or can any body tell me a good way to convert BRFs into actual words that VO can read or if not could anyone recommend a good daisy player that works well with ML? Than

Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-29 Thread brandt
Hi there folks, Are there any way of reading a bookshare book on the mac, without taking the daisy book apart? I know that in Windows we have the victor reader software. Regards, Brandt Steenkamp MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com AIM: brandt.steenk.

Re: Bookshare books on the Mac

2012-10-03 Thread Buddy Brannan
Hi, For a DAISY player, try Olearia: http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Oct 3, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Becky Knaub wrote: > Hi All, > I am trying to download a book from Bookshare on my Mac and the xmls format > is n

Re: Bookshare books on the Mac

2012-10-15 Thread Steve Holmes
The last time I looked there, it was so incomplete, I had no idea how to install, let alone use the thing. On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Hi, > > For a DAISY player, try Olearia: > http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ > > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (8

accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Hello All, Has anybody found a good way !read BRF or DAISY text files on the Mac with a braille Display? Thanks, Aleeha -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you fe

Re: Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Brandt, Check the archives for more suggestions but the method I use right now is to open the xml version of the book in safari. There is a free daisy player called Olearia but I couldn't get it to read from one chapter to the next without manually telling the program to move on. The safari

Re: Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
The way I do it is, use a program like the unarchiver which will unzip password protected zip files. One of the files will have an xml extension, just open that in safari and off you go. On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:59 PM, brandt wrote: > Hi there folks, > > Are there any way of reading a bookshare

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. I read them with my braille display in either i text express or in sasarafi, depending on the format of the book. some say you have to have your display set for computer braille.. hth, Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Al

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Bill Dengler
Hello, Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to this as well… Thanks, Bill > On Apr 11, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Hi, > I download the books, in either .brf or daisy txt only formats. > > I read them

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Ugh!! sorry about the horrible typo.. I meant safari.. Caitlyn > On Apr 11, 2016, at 1:50 PM, Bill Dengler wrote: > > Hello, > Where can I get a copy of Sasarafi? > Google and Mac App Store yield nothing, have been looking for a solution to > this as well… > > Thanks, > Bill >> On Apr 11, 201

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-11 Thread Carter Temm
Hi, How does i text express work, and where can I get it? I would love to have a way of accessing bookshare books on the mac as well. On windows there is another program you can use called read out loud, but don't think their is a mac equivalent. On 4/11/16, Caitlyn Furness wrote: >

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-12 Thread Caitlyn Furness
k, and where can I get it? I would love to > have a way of accessing bookshare books on the mac as well. On windows > there is another program you can use called read out loud, but don't > think their is a mac equivalent. > > On 4/11/16, Caitlyn Furness wrote: >> Hi, >

Re: accessing BookShare books on the Mac

2016-04-12 Thread Carter Temm
t; hth, > Caitlyn > >> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Carter Temm wrote: >> >> Hi, >> How does i text express work, and where can I get it? I would love to >> have a way of accessing bookshare books on the mac as well. On windows >> there is another