Off-Topic: Daisy Readers

[Steve Holmes]

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Not quite related, I tried to open up the directory containing several
daisy books I already exported or unpacked from bookshare with listen-up
and all I seem to get is a blank screen with the listen-up menu bar on
top.  Wonder what could be going wrong here.  I know bookshare
apparently doesn't support daisy in the O'Reily books but I thought I'd
give it a try with listen-up to see what happens.  I thought listen-up
supported text yeah?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:30:33PM -0400, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >Don't you mean A P H
> 
> Yep! Thanks for the correction.
> 
> >However, if you want to know more about what DAISY is all about, and by
> >inference, what the software is doing, you might want to read some of my
> >articles from Access World about this:
> >
> >http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050104
> >http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw050103
> 
> Thanks. I've already read those excellent articles. <grin> I don't recall 
> seeing a review of the BookPort though. Also, I would have liked more 
> information on the sound quality of each player. I thought the Victor 
> Classic sounded much better then the standard 4-track players, but that 
> could also be due to better quality of the source material.
> 
> Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is if it is possible to use all the 
> features of the BookPort without windows? And specifically, how difficult 
> is it to create daisy books in linux if that is all that is required for 
> the BookPort to read files transfered via the usb port in linux...
> 
> I know I should be asking this question to APH (there, got it right this 
> time), but I'm afraid I already did. Unfortunately, I got a condescending 
> answer, and I quote, "Windows format is pretty standard, and most widely 
> used and all of your screen readers support it."
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Trevor
> 
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