Listen-up and bookshare

[Janina Sajka]

There's an issue that I need to address with BookShare. As far as I can
tell, their so-called DAISY is just that, so-called. It does not
resemble the DAISY I know well enough to be handled properly by most
DAISY players. 

Case in point, their content seems to be organized around pages as the
top organizing principle. That's just wrong. 

Perhaps I looked at the wrong files, or a bad example. However, I have
checking this out on my list of things to do.


Cheryl Homiak writes:
> From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at chartermi.net>
> 
> I haven't succeeded in getting listen-up to work with books from
> bookshare.org although I can get it to work fine with all the books on the
> iso Janina made.
> I am aware of the discussion of daisy compliance a relates to bookshare
> and I am aware that listen-up is in developmental stages.
> I just want to know whether I should be having more success so I can
> decide whether to search for what I am doing wrong or just wait for
> further developments in daisy and/or listen-up.
> When I say I can't get listen-up to work with bookshare, I mean that I can
> use the menus fine and hit open in files but nothing happens; I go to play
> and enter on that and still nothing happens. But listen-up works
> immediately and easily when I use the books on the iso. I also notice that
> the books on the iso have a lot of mp3 files, whereas I see no mp3
> extensions on what i am getting from bookshare. there are other
> differences in the extensions from the two sources also.
> Since I'm not getting books from either source to work using
> emacspeak-daisy and am getting no feedback whatsoever as to what my
> problem might be with that program, I'm getting frustrated, but I can
> handle some frustration
> if I either know what I need to fix  on my end or
> rule out that this is
> something I can fix.
> I can at least read the text of most of the bookshare books by coping the
> .xml files to .html extensions and reading them but this isn't really how
> one is supposed to have to read a daisybook.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175