Off-Topic: Daisy Readers

[Janina Sajka]

The DAISY that BookShare uses is supposed to be DAISY 3.0 (though it
isn't, quite). Listen-Up only reads DAISY 2.X.

hth

Steve Holmes writes:
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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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> > 
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