A question from a Linux new bee

[LARRY SKUTCHAN]

This is not at all the experience I have had with the Daisy version of
these books.  I use the Book Wizard Reader software (in Windows) to
either read them on the PC or I send them to the Book Port.  In either
case, headings, sections, and subsections are all properly marked up and
navigable.

These are Daisy 3.x books, so if you have a daisy 2.x reader, they will
not work properly.

The entire collection is definatly not on bookshare.org, but many of
them are.

>>> steve at holmesgrown.com Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:39:33 AM >>>
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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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