Hi there, I can’t seem to get the beginning set up, like you were saying Marie the library set up doesn’t seem to work. Is there a way you can search for what books they have an a certain subject like science fiction or religious fiction or anything like that? Thanks
Lelia Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Marie N. <magpie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark, Just to let you know, after reading several of your posts concerning > Overdrive app, I decided to give it a try. I am totally blind but am now > using the app on a regular basis. I had some problems getting the library set > up but I am finding that I can use the program successfully. I belong to > Audible but always check the availability of the books I want in the library > first. > I want to thank you for the encouragement to use the app because the first > time I tried it did not seem accessible enough for regular usage. > Marie > > -----Original Message----- From: M. Taylor > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 9:43 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Overdrive how to use it? > > Hello Lelia, > > I am going to paste in an answer that I posted to the list a while ago: > > As some in this community may recall, I am a huge fan of Over Drive. I use > it, exclusively, to download commercial audio books; from classic fiction > such as “Gone with the Wind,” to modern non-fiction releases such as Hillary > Clinton’s recently published, “What Happened.” > > Having said this, the answer to your question will depend a great deal on > whether or not you have any usable vision. > > I will confess that Over Drive is one of the few apps on my phone that > compels me to use my vision in order to access certain areas of an audio > book. This is not to say that these areas are not VoiceOver accessible but, > accessing them requires more explore-by-touch than iOS users have come to > expect. > > So, while the names of each chapter and section heading are completely > VoiceOver accessible, accessing this area can be a bit challenging if one is > totally blind. > > Regardless, I will suggest the following navigation strategy, which requires > no vision, whatsoever, in order to execute: > > 1. > Place focus on the Play/Pause button, located near the bottom center of the > display. > > 2. > Single-finger, swipe from right-to-left, once. This will place focus on the > “Skip Back 15 Seconds”, button. > > 3. > Single-finger, swipe from right-to-left, again, in order to land on the > “Audio book, Previous Heading”, button. Each time you activate this button. > You will be taken back one subsection/chapter, at a time. > > Good Luck and Enjoy, > > Mark > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Lelia Struve > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2018 1:23 PM > To: Viphone > Subject: Overdrive how to use it? > > Hello everyone, so I didn’t know you could do this but I got a library card > online. So I got the over Drive app, but I can’t seem to save my library. Any > tips on how to use this app would be greatly appreciated. I went to the Apple > vis site and didn’t find too much. I thought someone would have made a > podcast but no luck. Thanks for any and all tips and tricks! > > Lelia > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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