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Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, and
2) compatibility with your reading tool. To learn more about using
Bookshare with your device, visit the Help Center.
Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare
offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more
information.
- Bookshare Web
Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all
the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
- DAISY
(Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format.
DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with
just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that
contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with
Images’.
- BRF (Braille
Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable
Braille devices and Braille embossers.
- MP3 (MPEG audio
layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created
with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality
synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is
compatible.
- DAISY Audio
- Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3
files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas
Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible
players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
- EPUB
- A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as
iBooks, Readium or others.
- Word
- Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool
that allows .docx files
Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, and 2) compatibility with your reading tool. To learn more about using Bookshare with your device, visit the Help Center.
Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more information.
- Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
- DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
- BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
- MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
- DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
- EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
- Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files
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