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  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’.
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  • 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

11 results found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier 9782819942313 John Pinkerton
Evaluating Family Support: Thinking Internationally, Thinking Critically (Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series) 9780470864685 Ilan Katz, John Pinkerton 2004
Family Support - Linking Project Evaluation to Policy Analysis 9781351767972 John Pinkerton, Kathryn Higgins 2017
Family Support - Linking Project Evaluation to Policy Analysis: Linking Project Evaluation To Policy Analysis (Evaluative Research In Social Work Ser.) 9781351767965 John Pinkerton, Kathryn Higgins 2017
Meeting the Challenge?: Young People Leaving Care in Northern Ireland (Routledge Revivals) 9780429834080 John Pinkerton, Ross McCrea 1999
Meeting the Challenge?: Young People Leaving Care in Northern Ireland (Routledge Revivals) 9780429834073 John Pinkerton, Ross McCrea 1999
Understanding Family Support: Policy, Practice and Theory 9780857002587 John Canavan, John Pinkerton, Pat Dolan 2015
Understanding Family Support: Policy, Practice and Theory (PDF) 9780857002587 John Canavan, John Pinkerton, Pat Dolan 2015
Family Support as Reflective Practice 9781846424748 Pat Dolan, John Canavan and John Pinkerton 2006
Family Support: Direction from Diversity 9781846421839 Graham Allan, Pat Dolan, John Canavan, Peter Steen Jensen, Carolyn Cutrona, Graham Crow, Martin Herbert, Robbie Gilligan, John Pinkerton, Sandra Ryan, Joachim Wieler 2000
Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood: International Research and Practice (Child Welfare Outcomes) 9781846427916 John Pinkerton, David Vincent, Harriet Ward, Jim Wade, Robbie Gilligan, Mark Courtney, Erik Knorth, Jorge Fernandez del Valle, Gabriela Dima, Jan Storo, Wolfgang Schröer, Thomas Gabriel, Renate Stohler, Rami Benbenishty, Phillip Mendes, Maria Herczog, Roxana Anghel, Annick Dumaret, Rawan Ibrahim, Stefan Köngeter, Judy Cashmore, Ingrid Hojer, Maren Zeller, Robert Flynn 2008