[Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

[Neal Sorensen]

Hello Heidi,

Bookshare books are surprisingly easy to convert to Text Only.  Here's a quick how-to...


1.       Unzip the file downloaded from Bookshare, and open the extracted folder.

2.       Look for the file ending in .XML and open it in an internet browser (I recommend Firefox)

3.       Copy the full text from the browser and paste it into a word processor.

4.       Breathe easy

XML file contains the full text, often with Images, with some rich text formatting and pages indicated.  XML usually contains styles too, but I don't think that is included in the Bookshare XML.

I have noticed that newer versions of Mac OS X have had compatibility issues with Bookshare software.  Read:OutLoud hasn't run successfully for me in almost a year on Macs.  This is the best method I have discovered for working around that issue, and still using Bookshare content with those students.

Hope this helps!

Neal Sorensen
Specialist of Assistive Technology
Office of Disability Resources
Naropa University: Boulder, CO
nsorensen at naropa.edu<mailto:nsorensen at naropa.edu>
Phone: 303-546-3560

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Hi all,



This semester we've had several students who are needing text-only DAISY so that they can access DAISY on their Android devices.  Is anyone out there converting to text-only DAISY? We've been in contact with Bookshare and they use the Save As DAISY plug-in for Word. But we aren't having any luck getting that to work.



Anyone have any ideas??



Thanks in advance!!



Heidi

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