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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

11 results found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
The Challenge of Competence: Professionalism through Vocational Education and Traning 9780826426390 Phil Hodkinson 1994
Triumphs and Tears: Young People, Markets, and the Transition from School to Work (Manchester Metropolitan University Education Ser.) 9781134093335 Phil Hodkinson, Heather Hodkinson, Andrew C. Sparkes 1996
Triumphs and Tears: Young People, Markets, and the Transition from School to Work 9781134093267 Phil Hodkinson, Heather Hodkinson, Andrew C. Sparkes 1996
Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace 9781135726133 Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Lorna Unwin 2002
Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace 9781135726126 Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Lorna Unwin 2002
There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) 9781317010715 Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock 2008
There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) 9781317010722 Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock 2008
Improving Workplace Learning (Improving Learning) 9781134196524 Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Helen Rainbird, Lorna Unwin 2006
Improving Workplace Learning (Improving Learning) 9781134196531 Karen Evans, Phil Hodkinson, Helen Rainbird, Lorna Unwin 2006
Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives (Improving Learning) 9781136809774 Gert Biesta, John Field, Phil Hodkinson, Flora J. Macleod, Ivor F. Goodson 2011
Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives (Improving Learning) 9781136809767 Gert Biesta, John Field, Phil Hodkinson, Flora J. Macleod, Ivor F. Goodson 2011