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Select your format based upon:

  1. how you want to read your book, and
  2. compatibility with your reading tool.

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Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members.

  • 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

8 result found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Data Dissemination in Wireless Computing Environments (Advances in Database Systems #19) 9780306470264 Kian-Lee Tan, Beng Chin Ooi 2000
Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 10th International Conference, DASFAA 2005, Beijing, China, April 17-20, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #3453) 9783540320050 Lizhu Zhou, Beng Chin Ooi, Xiaofeng Meng 2005
Peer-to-Peer Computing: Principles and Applications 9783642035142 Quang Hieu Vu, Mihai Lupu, Beng Chin Ooi 2010
Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Second International Workshop, DBISP2P 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #3367) 9783540318385 Wee Siong Ng, Beng Chin Ooi, Aris Ouksel, Claudio Sartori 2005
Indexing Techniques for Advanced Database Systems (Advances in Database Systems #8) 9781461562276 Elisa Bertino, Beng Chin Ooi, Ron Sacks-Davis, Kian-Lee Tan, Justin Zobel, Boris Shidlovsky, Daniele Andronico 1997
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7045) 9783642251061 Robert Meersman, Jules White, Manfred Hauswirth, Pascal Hitzler, Mukesh K. Mohania, Tharam Dillon, Pilar Herrero, Akhil Kumar, Manfred Reichert, Li Qing, Beng Chin Ooi, Ernesto Damiani, Douglas C. Schmidt 2011
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #7044) 9783642251092 Robert Meersman, Jules White, Manfred Hauswirth, Pascal Hitzler, Mukesh K. Mohania, Tharam Dillon, Pilar Herrero, Akhil Kumar, Manfred Reichert, Li Qing, Beng Chin Ooi, Ernesto Damiani, Douglas C. Schmidt 2011
Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing: International Conference, EUC 2006, Seoul, Korea, August 1-4, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #4096) 9783540366812 Edwin Sha, Sung-Kook Han, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Moon Hae Kim, Laurence T. Yang, Bin Xiao 2006