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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
Northern Neighbours: Scotland and Norway since 1800 9781474403436 John Bryden, Ottar Brox 2015
Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences (Methodos Series #13) 9783319724089 Eric Silverman, Daniel Courgeau, Robert Franck, Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton, Jason Noble, John Bryden 2018
Advances in Topological Quantum Field Theory: Proceedings of the NATO Adavanced Research Workshop on New Techniques in Topological Quantum Field Theory, Kananaskis Village, Canada 22 - 26 August 2001 (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry #179) 9781402027727 John M. Bryden 2004
MEI Structured Mathematics: Mechanics 2 (PDF) 9780340888520 David Holland, Roger Porkess, Ted Graham, John Berry, Pat Bryden 2004
Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology 9781000785593 Mark Bryden, John Dyson, Jaimie Johnston, Martin Wood 2022
Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology 9781000785555 Mark Bryden, John Dyson, Jaimie Johnston, Martin Wood 2022
Medical Informatics Europe ’90: Proceedings, Glasgow, Scotland, August 20–23, 1990 (Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics #40) 9783642516597 Rory O'Moore, Stellan Bengtsson, John R. Bryant, John S. Bryden 1990
The Resistance Arteries: Integration of the Regulatory Pathways (Experimental Biology and Medicine #26) 9781475722963 William Halpern, John A. Bevan, Joseph Brayden, Harriet Dustan, Mark Nelson, George Osol 1994
EMU — A Swedish Perspective 9781461561835 Lars Calmfors, Harry Flam, Nils Gottfries, Janne Haaland Matlary, Magnus Jerneck, Rutger Lindahl, Christina Nordh Berntsson, Ewa Rabinowitz, A. Vredin 1997
Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life 9781846427671 Malcolm Goldsmith, John Swinton, Christine Bryden, Rosalie Hudson, Christopher Newell, Dagmar Ceramidas, Eileen Mary Glass, Matthew Anstey, Ruwan Palapathwala, Alan Niven, Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, Lorna Hallahan, Lawrence McNamara 2008