Category: Cell Phone Talk
Hi, there is a app for android call "Darwin Reader for Android" currently its in Beta but it has bookshare intigrated directly into the app. I am posting this for those who love to read and have an android device. When I pay for my member ship next thirsday I will post an update to how accessible it is on my phone. So far log in is a sinch, it read very well by my screenreader.
Hope it doesn't cost you 20 bucks like the iOS app does.
$20 in the iOS store I could buy two iLife office applications.
Also hopefully you can just use the built-in reader / voice and not external voices like a talking player. The hardest thing with those is seeing how something has been spelled out.
do you have to pay for that application?
Darwin reader is not just Solly a bookshare app, it has access to the libravox library as well you can download from. I love this, its a self reading app that allows you to navigate page by page, has a table of contents and it will read where you left off using the system voice you have chose in your voice imput and out put settings under the system settings for android.
Can you do things like spell a word, etc in it? The thing I've found most difficult, in the six months of using audio books, is that unlike real reading with a Braille display or with paper, you can't tell how something is written out. For fiction that is not so important unless you end up commenting on someone's Facebook about it and look like a total goof. But much of nonfiction it is necessary.
In a situation where we can't read it for ourselves, I still think the best solution is with the built in reader or whatever reader you choose, where you can navigate by word or character over a passage. I hope Android does books better than Apple in this fasion, because Apple's iBooks app lets you navigate at most one word at a time, you cant skip line by line down a page. Such a creepy crawly way to have to do it when you have to go back and check someething on a page. I'm sure someone has a better way to manage the audio thing than I have, seeing as lots of people can't afford a display.
so far no, but not sure if that is me not using the app to its full potential or it simply does not let you move letter by letter. It however will let you move word by word and etc.
I've just installed Darwin, and so far I'm liking it. I haven't explored all its functionality yet though, just started using it about an hour ago.
We really need an app for the iOS platform that supports Bookshare content. Even if I had to sync the content to my phone, it would have been worth not paying for read2go.
I was told its $20 on IO"S? um..., why, when the bookshare app from book share is free on android