Also, don't forget tjat in addition to books, you get access to magazines and newspapers, nd belive me, from what I hear, it's better than NFB. I think NFBNewsline only gets access to the free content on the web, but if you subscribe to a Kindle magazine, you can get the whole thing, nothing left out. I haven' tried yetm because I don't know if I can afford it, but I will one day.
Jane On May 12, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the most part, any book you get on Kindle will be perfectly legible. > There is always the question with BookShare of how legible the scanned > material will be, and I frankly don't read BookShare books that have a "good" > rating or below. I have an uncanny knack for discovering a book in which the > climax of the narrative takes place on poorly-scanned copy. Also, I may only > buy two books a year for about twenty dollars, versus the fifty dollars for > BookShare per year, which is not in my budget. I do, like other listers, tend > to look at the Braille and recorded book libraries for such things first, but > find that for rare cases, I don't want to wait for the book to be processed. > > Teresa > On May 12, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: > >> One big advantage to the kindle app is the amazing number of books we, as >> blind readers, now have the ability to access in one place. It was stated, >> in a recent Tech Doctor podcast, that this number is 1.8 million (I have not >> confirmed this.) Not all these books will be readable with this app (the >> ones that are images), and not all books on Amazon are available through >> Kindle, but just having such a large number of readable books is the biggest >> advantage. Another advantage is how quickly we will be able to buy these >> books after they are issued as print copies. They probably are available >> through kindle within a few days of publication. The Nook, and Google Books >> services will have some of them, but Amazon has the largest number of eBooks. >> >> That having been written, as a blind reader, because I could not own books >> at a reasonable price, I am very use to borrowing and reading books, and >> until recently, returning them. So, I assure you, I check Bookshare, Bard, >> Learning Ally, or any other legal source from which I can borrow and read >> books, before I buy them. >> >> Arnold Schmidt >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileens Misrahi" >> <eileen.misr...@gmail.com> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 11:49 AM >> Subject: Justification for using Kindle vs. downloading from Bookshare >> >> >> Hello List, >> >> Besides the obvious of,Bookshare not having a particular book, what other >> advantages does the Kindle app have over using Bookshare to access books? I >> will check Bookshare first to see if the book that I want to read is there >> to download because of the ability to download the book for free. I have >> "Read2Go" & Voice Dream apps on the phone to accomplish this. What features >> in the Kindle app is unique to app that is not in the other apps? Input on >> this would be great. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Best, >> Eileen >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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