Well, then, Apple might want to step up it's game, since it's now releasing textbooks through iBooks. All those elements that Mario mentioned are super important to comprehending information in textbooks.
Thanks, Ari On 3/28/13, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I think your misunderstanding the point of the reader. It was intended as a > > reader for novels etc and never intended for text books for students. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mario Barbuto" <barb...@cavazza.it> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>; <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: best epub reader app for I Phone and accessibility? > > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I guess Gutemberg project uses the so-called "social DRM", out of >> copyright protection. >> For this kind of ebooks the Apple free downloadable app "Ibooks" could be >> >> suitable enough, but only in case of simple contents books, I mean >> especially novels and litterature books in general. >> In short, all that books readable almost sequentially from start to end, >> from top to bottom. >> >> Unfortunately, in case you need reading more complex books, the Ibooks app >> >> often fails, not showing you all the features of the book. >> I'm mainly thinking of books filled with tables, footnotes, indexes with >> nested items, headings, meaningful images, refeences and so on. >> Ibooks seems not to recognize tables and consequently they cannot be red >> according to their structure, by column or by line, but just sequentially >> >> line per line. >> The text description tags of images, when present, are ignored as well as >> >> nested paragraphs in an index. >> Setting the VO rotor in navigation by headings you are not allowed to jump >> >> to next or previous heading by the usual one finger down or up sliding >> gesture. >> >> I have found more suitable to reading Epub format, but not copyright >> protected ebooks, the app called "Ilike2Read", downloadable not for free, >> >> despite I did not find a complete accessible and usable app yet, capable >> of taking advantage of all the Ebooks navigation features. >> Not to mention Ebooks Adobe DRM protected that are almost inaccessible to >> >> VoiceOver in Iphone and other apple devices. >> Only the "OverDrive" app seems dealing a little with that kind of books, >> but with bunch of shortcomings. >> >> Of course, this is just my personal experience, >> hoping it could help. >> >> Mario. >> >> >> At 11:57 27/03/2013, Dan Beaver GMail wrote: >>>Hi, >>> >>>I see that project Gutenberg suggests several apps for reading their books >>> >>>in epub format. >>> >>>does anyone know the most accessible and usable app for reading epubs on >>>the I Phone? >>> >>>Thanks. >>> >>>Dan Beaver >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
