A question from a Linux new bee

Tue May 3 12:47:24 EDT 2005

Bookshare has always been Daisy 3.0.  Any reader that supports 3.0 will
read the bookshare.org holdings.

>>> steve at holmesgrown.com Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:10:42 PM >>>
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:48:37AM -0400, LARRY SKUTCHAN wrote:
> 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.

Oh, did they update things recently? I thought the only reader that
could read Bookshare books was the Victor Reader soft (Bookshare
edition).  If they have completed migration to DAISY 3.0, then We only
need a decent DAISY reader for the job.

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