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Cutting Edge of E-books and E-readers

Mainstream E-book and E-reader Accessibility

Presenter: Norman coombs EASI CEO and Professor Emeritus RIT

View the slides from this Cutting Edge Webinar

Note that in the recording, the audio of reading with Kindle, Blio and Adobe Digital Editions Preview did not play. Use the links to those e-readers below to hear them reading.

Watch the recording of this Cutting Edge Webinar

Listen to Kindle for the PC reading a book

Listen to the Blio e-reader reading a book

Listen to Adobe Digital Editions Preview reading a book


Here are some further resources that will help you learn more

Here are links to sites where you can download some e-readers and/or support materials:

The help for Kindle for PC is primarily for people who are using it to interface with a hardware Kindle device. There is some help for navigating the interface and a little help for reading on the PC software. This includes a few hot keys. However, this is lost in the longer help document.

 

The Diagram Center has a series of resources on:

Diamgram Center is at: diagramcenter.org

 

The Wikipedia Comparison of E-readers is at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers

Open Office Suite is at www.openoffice.org

 

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