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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

4 result found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting: An Alternative Guide 9781407064024 Joanna Simmons, Jay Curtis 2010
Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation, The (CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series) 9781786393272 Tahar Abbou, Lucinda Carspecken, John Hornblow, Jenny Boyack, Sonika Jain, Nanna Natalia Jørgensen, Steven Muir, Zülfükar Özdogan, Cindy Pavlinac, E. Moore Quinn, Mari-Johanna Rahkala-Simberg, Varada Sambus, Patricia A. Sayre, Daniel J. Simons, Chadwick Co Su, Sara Terreault 2017
Crime Scene To Court (PDF) 9781782624462 Peter C. White, David Halliday, Sharon Broome, Mark Mastaglio, Blaine Price, Michael Cole, Hazel Torrance, Nigel Watson, Tal Simmons, Ann Priston, Karl C. Harrison, Joanne Millington, Caroline O'Mahoney, Clive Reedman, Angela Shaw, Cliff Todd, John Tuer, Brian Rankin, Mark Baron, Patricia Wiltshire, Dorothy Gennard, Tiernan Coyle, David Baldwin, Audrey Giles 2016
Cruise Ship Tourism 9781786391179 Professor Michael Clancy, Professor Ross A Klein, William Terry, Professor Xavier Font, Mireia Guix Navarrete, Maria Jesús Bonilla, Michael Lück, Jill Poulston, Michael P. Vogel, Adam Weaver, Alexis Papathanassis, Philip Gibson, Maree Thyne, James Henry, Jo-Anne Lester, Júlio Mendes, Manuela Guerreiro, Bingjie Liu, Lori Pennington-Gray, Peter Tarlow, Arja Lemmetyinen, Gabriella Polizzi, Antonino Mario Oliveri, Sheree-Ann Adams, Professor James Petrick, Suiwen Zou, Kam Hung, Claire Lambert, Ross Dowling, Nigel Jarvis, Clare Weeden, Ioannis Pantelidis, Abel Alonso, Nevil Alexander, Eloise Botelho, Carla Fraga, Rodrigo Vilani, Michael Shone, Jude Wilson, David G Simmons, Emma J Stewart, Joseph M Cheer, Gaetano Sabato, C Michael Hall, Hannah Wood, Sandra Wilson, Claire Ellis, Pascal Scherrer, Kaye Walker, Daniela Liggett, Emad Monshi, Professor Noel Scott, Marianna Sigala, Véronique Mondou, Benjamin Taunay, Iris Mao 2017