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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

6 result found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
Service Engineering: Von Dienstleistungen zu digitalen Service-Systemen 9783658209056 Kyrill Meyer, Stephan Klingner, Christian Zinke 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford Handbooks) 9780191508424 Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer and David Schlosberg 2016
Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal 9780128095799 Cheryl L. Meyer, Taronish Irani, Katherine A. Hermes, Betty Yung 2017
The Origins of American Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory (Advances in Criminological Theory) 9781351477840 Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Andrew J. Myer and Freda Adler 2011
The Origins of American Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory (Advances in Criminological Theory) 9781351477857 Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Andrew J. Myer, Freda Adler 2011
Understanding Care Homes: A Research and Development Perspective (PDF) 9781846428845 Angela Cotter, Bren Torry, Cheryl Holman, Christine Brown-Wilson, Claire Goodman, David Stanley, Garuth Chalfont, Heather Wilkinson, Jan Dewing, Julia Johnson, Julienne Meyer, Katherine Froggatt, Keith Crowhurst, Robert Jenkins, Sheila Furness, Stephen Leyshon, Sue Davies, Tina Fear 2008