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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
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First 9780241198407 Frank Trentmann 2017
Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History 9781785330544 Frank Trentmann 2000
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford Handbooks) 9780191624353 Frank Trentmann 2012
Infrastructures In Practice (PDF) 9781138476165 Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann 2019
Infrastructures In Practice 9781138476165 Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann 2019
Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Cultures of Consumption Series) 9781847884596 Alexander Nuetzenadel, Frank Trentmann 2008
Infrastructures in Practice: The Dynamics of Demand in Networked Societies 9781351106160 Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann 2019
Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture (Cultures of Consumption) 9781000184655 Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann, Richard Wilk 2009
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 9781350040939 John Brewer, Neil Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Frank Trentmann 2019
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 9781350040922 Frank Trentmann, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Neil Fromer, John Brewer 2019