A question from a Linux new bee

[Steve Holmes]

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Actually, I was extremely disappointed in Bookshare's markup of these
books.  In fact, they claim to have DAISY materials up there and none of
the O'Reilley books work with DAISY and they even say so on the website.
When I download the DAISY version of the O'Reilley books, I have to open
up the HTML part and from what I've experienced in the past, I had no
links to navigte to.  If I were in IE or Firefox, I could use the
Window-Eyes' H command to jump from one header to the next but that's
hardly what I call good navigation.

I agree; the online services of Safari don't allow for any offline
reading so I guess there's a trade off.  I have beaten this drumb
enough times with no results, but I really wish Bookshare could improve
the DAISY markup of the O'Reilly collection.

Also, someone asked if the entire collection was on Bookshare.  I don't
think so and the reason I say that is I was referred to a book on Win
2000 securety one time Nd I could *NOT* find it on Bookshare and it had
been touted as an O'Reilley book.  So I dunno for sure.

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:13:17AM -0400, LARRY SKUTCHAN wrote:
> Actually, the markup of these books in bookshare.org is quite good. 
> There is no way these were created from flat text files.  I know most
> books in the bookshare collection leave something to be desired in the
> markup area, but the O'reilley collection is the exception.
> 
> The drawback to the Safari solution is that you must read the books on
> line, and navigation from section to section, while accessible, is a
> pain.
> 
> Don't even try copying a section to your clipboard, the service will
> lock you out.

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