[Athen] The EReader That Didn't Read In The Night

[Patrick Burke]

Hi all,

I got Kestrell's infinite-loop effect when installing Kindle for PC 
on one machine (EEEPC netbook), but not on another (boring Dell 
desktop workstation).

I managed to download & sync a couple of titles. In the cruelest cut 
for E.A., one of the books I found was Hound Of The Baskervilles for 
free. So they're stealing British literature & giving it away to 
Americans, but not letting Brits read it. HARSH!

But the best/worst part is this: In Chapter Two there are a couple of 
documents (old manuscript, newspaper article) which are skipped 
completely! What happened to the mysterious disappearing text?! ...

My guess is that those sections are in italics, & the Kindle plugin 
can't read them yet. I have written to the Kindle feedback team. Will 
update if I learn more.

So ... It's great, it's amazing. But within 20 pages of the first 
book I read there is a major problem.

Patrick

At 08:20 AM 1/19/2011, Kestrell wrote:

>Has anyone installed and run this on a computer using Jaws? I have 

>been trying to do so all morning and keep getting stuck in an 

>infinite loop re a message that some component of Microsoft Windows 

>Journal Viewer is not available.

>

>Kestrell

>

>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1 at gmail.com>

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>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:52 AM

>Subject: [Athen] FW: Introducing Free Kindle Software with 

>AccessibilityFeatures

>

>

>>Colleagues,

>>

>>This is an extremely important first step toward full accessibility 

>>to many books.  While I'd like to see Amazon provide ubiquitous 

>>access by making their mobile devices and mobile software (along 

>>with the Mac software) accessible, it gets blind or visually 

>>impaired people the beginning of the dream of having the same 

>>access to electronic books as their sighted peers.

>>

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>From: Amazon.com [mailto:store-news at amazon.com]

>>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:38 AM

>>To: pratikp1 at gmail.com

>>Subject: Introducing Free Kindle Software with Accessibility Features

>>

>>Dear blind-interest at amazon.com subscriber,

>>

>>Amazon.com is releasing a new version of Kindle for PC that adds 

>>accessibility features designed for blind and low-vision customers.

>>

>>Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin is a free, downloadable 

>>application for your Windows PC.  It provides the following 

>>accessibility features: text-to-speech reading with adjustable 

>>voice settings, voice-guided menu navigation, large font sizes, 

>>high contrast reading mode, keyboard navigation, and accessible shortcuts.

>>

>>With this software, for the first time ever, the entire collection 

>>of English language books in the Kindle Store can be read 

>>aloud.  With over 750,000 English language titles, Amazon offers 

>>the largest selection of accessible ebooks.  In order to use the 

>>text-to-speech feature, an external screen reader program must be 

>>installed and running on the Windows PC.

>>

>>The free download is available at: http://www.amazon.com/kindle/accessibility

>>

>>We welcome your feedback at: kindle-PC-accessibility-feedback at amazon.com

>>

>>Sincerely,

>>The Kindle Team

>>

>>=====================================================================

>>

>>(c) 2011 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

>>

>>Amazon, the Amazon a logo, the AmazonKindle logo, Kindle, and 

>>Whispersync are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

>>

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>>

>>Please note that this message was sent to the following

>>e-mail address: pratikp1 at gmail.com

>>

>>

>>

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Patrick J. Burke

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UCLA Disabilities &
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