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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
Critical Issues in Early Literacy: Research and Pedagogy 9781000149586 Yetta Goodman, Prisca Martens 2007
Critical Issues in Early Literacy: Research and Pedagogy 9781000106374 Yetta Goodman, Prisca Martens 2007
Changing Literacies for Changing Times: An Historical Perspective on the Future of Reading Research, Public Policy, and Classroom Practices 9781135845759 James V. Hoffman, Yetta Goodman 2010
Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 9781136682643 Ken Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Shimizu Iventosch, Yetta Goodman 2011
Making Sense of Learners Making Sense of Written Language: The Selected Works of Kenneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman 9781134062515 Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman 2014
Making Sense of Learners Making Sense of Written Language: The Selected Works of Kenneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman 9781134062584 Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman 2014
Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?: Why Expertise Matters 9781135096670 Kenneth S. Goodman, Robert C. Calfee, Yetta M. Goodman 2014
Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?: Why Expertise Matters 9781135096748 Kenneth S. Goodman, Robert C. Calfee, Yetta M. Goodman 2014
Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 9781136682650 Kenneth S. Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman 2011
Changing Literacies for Changing Times: An Historical Perspective on the Future of Reading Research, Public Policy, and Classroom Practices 9781135845766 James V. Hoffman, Yetta M. Goodman 2010