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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

5 result found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Dendroclimatic Studies: Tree Growth and Climate Change in Northern Forests (Special Publications #67) 9781118848715 Rosanne D'Arrigo, Nicole Davi, Gordon Jacoby, Rob Wilson, Greg Wiles 2014
Dendroclimatic Studies: Tree Growth and Climate Change in Northern Forests (Special Publications) 9781118848760 Rosanne D'Arrigo, Nicole Davi, Gordon Jacoby, Rob Wilson, Greg Wiles 2014
The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities 9781136534522 Pedro Jacobi, Marianne Kjellen, Gordon McGranahan, Jacob Songsore, Charles Surjadi 2001
The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities 9781136534539 Pedro Jacobi, Marianne Kjellen, Gordon McGranahan, Jacob Songsore, Charles Surjadi 2001
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Play of Poiesis 9781784505325 Per Espen Stoknes, Emily Miller, Herbert Eberhart, Sally Atkins, Paolo J. Knill, Brigitte Wanzenried, Elisabeth Hösli, Isabelle Hayeur, Jacques Stitelmann, Jessica Gilway, Judith Greer Essex, Judy Nisenholt, Kelly Clark Keefe, Kelly Lycan, Lisa Herman, Majken Jacoby, Margo Fuchs Knill, Peter Wanzenried, Rebekah Windmiller, Rosemary Faire, Rowesa Gordon, Sabine S. Silberberg, Shara Claire, Shaun McNiff, Melinda Ashley DeMott, Carrie MacLeod, Elizabeth Gordon McKim 2017