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What format should I choose?

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

10 results found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Collins Health and Social Care (PDF) 9780007200405 Mark Walsh, Marilyn Billingham, Mary Crittenden, Alison Thomson, Douglas Thomson 2006
Thera-Build® with LEGO®: A Playful Therapeutic Approach for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Children 9781784508814 Alyson Thomsen 2018
British Social Attitudes: The 25th Report (PDF) 9780857020949 Elizabeth Clery, Katarina Thomson, Alison Park, Miranda Phillips, Professor John Curtice 2009
British Social Attitudes: Continuity and Change over Two Decades (PDF) 9781412933124 Katarina Thomson, Alison Park, Lindsey Jarvis, Catherine Bromley, Professor John Curtice 2004
British Social Attitudes: The 21st Report (PDF) 9781412933131 Katarina Thomson, Alison Park, Catherine Bromley, Miranda Phillips, Professor John Curtice 2005
British Social Attitudes: The 24th Report (PDF) 9781849202657 Alison Park, Elizabeth Clery, Katarina Thomson, Mark C Johnson, Miranda Phillips, Professor John Curtice 2008
British Social Attitudes: Focusing on Diversity - The 17th Report (PDF) 9781849206662 Alison Park, Catherine Bromley, Katarina Thomson, Lindsey Jarvis, Nina Stratford, Professor John Curtice, Roger Jowell 2001
British Social Attitudes: Public Policy, Social Ties - The 18th Report 9781849208437 Alison Park, Catherine Bromley, Katarina Thomson, Lindsey Jarvis, Nina Stratford, Professor John Curtice 2002
Feminist Disability Studies 9780253223401 Kim Q. Hall, Sharon A. Lamp, Carol Cleigh Sutton, Abby L. Wilkerson, April Michelle Herndon, Karen E. Jung, Ann M. Fox, Joan Lipkin, Alison Kafer, Ellen Samuels, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Susannah B. Mintz, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Nirmala Erevelles, Jennifer C. James, Cindy LaCom 2011
Gendering Disability 9780813533735 Bonnie G. Smith (Editor, Contribution By, Allison Kafer, Carol Kaufman-Scarborough, Georgina Kleege, Thilo Kroll, Catherine J. Kudlick, Kristin Lindgren, Melissa J. Mcneil, Corbett Joan O'Toole, Lisa Schur, Russell P. Shuttleworth, Beth Hutchison, Daniel J. Wilson, Adrienne Asch, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Robin Adele Greeley, Sarah E. Chinn, Sumi Colligan, Ann M. Fox 2004