Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-06 Thread Butch Bussen via Talk
I don't know if this what is happening to you, but I've read on other lists where once in a while there is a book that is just a scanned image, which nothing we have will read. 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Tom Fairhurst via Talk wrote: I have been reading Kind

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-07 Thread Samuel Wilkins via Talk
Hello Tom, I have managed to use the Kindle for PC programme with Accessibility plug-in. Once you have been able to open a book, it downloads to your computer. Then, you can use a programme called Codex to convert it into an alternative format. The link is, http://jscholes.net/project/cod

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-07 Thread Russ Kiehne via Talk
Have you tried using codex to convert the Kindle book to a format of your liking? I convert all of my Kindle books to epub to read them with voice dream reader. You can get codex from http://jscholes.net/project/codex/ -Original Message- From: Tom Fairhurst via Talk Sent: Thursday,

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-08 Thread Dave via Talk
Sorry, haven't attempted to use the Kindle Book Reader for at least a couple years. But, back when I did, I also discovered that I could not read all Books, due to the way they had been put together, or Formatted. I never did learn how I could tell before I bought the book. -- Dave

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-09 Thread Russ Kiehne via Talk
Perhaps the following podcast will help http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/TechAccessDemocastEp.9/Tad-0009-accessibleKindleForPc.mp3 -Original Message- From: Tom Fairhurst via Talk Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2016 8:39 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject:

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-09 Thread Russ Kiehne via Talk
Balabolka won'tread Kindle books because they have drm. You have to use codex to convert the Kindle book to a format of your choice. -Original Message- From: john s via Talk Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2016 12:53 PM To: Tom Fairhurst ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Fw: Kindl

RE: Kindle Books

2016-10-09 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Thanks for this, Russ. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Russ Kiehne via Talk Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 9:16 AM To: Tom Fairhurst ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Kindle Books Perhaps the

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-10 Thread bj colt via Talk
Dear Rod, I have had the exact same experiences. However, there is no way to tell prior to purchasing a kindle book the type of file it is. I have found Amazon customer services are fine at refunding the cost of the book. I don't know of any way to convert the file to an accessible format. The

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-10 Thread Russ Kiehne via Talk
Probably the best thing is, download the sample and see if it can beread. -Original Message- From: Tom Fairhurst via Talk Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 7:34 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Kindle Books This should be the last message on the subject. When I tried to read the

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-10 Thread bj colt via Talk
-Original Message- From: Russ Kiehne via Talk Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 2:17 PM To: Tom Fairhurst ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Kindle Books Probably the best thing is, download the sample and see if it can beread. -Original Message- From: Tom Fairhurst via Tal

Re: Kindle Books

2016-10-10 Thread Russ Kiehne via Talk
Discussion List Subject: Re: Kindle Books Hi, I tend to do that as a matter of rule but sometimes like most, I forget.lol Honestly the kindle customer services are great about refunding. Somehwow I was signed up to the monthly subscription and I didn't notice it for almost 10 months. They ref