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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m a big Kindle fan but I mostly read for fun. When I do read for classes it was typically history or literature, books that had to be read chronologically.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday Freedom scientific did a training on the Kindle app for the PC. I was really hoping to learn something new, but I didn’t.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For people just getting started, it shows how to navigate the library, find a specific book and filter for only those downloaded to the PC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Freedom scientific’s trainer showed how to move by line character and word, plus how to set and retrieve a bookmark.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For searching they showed how to locate a particular “page” or a phrase within the book. Also they showed how to locate a specific book in the library.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note that all these keystrokes also work with NVDA.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This took them literally only ten minutes because it’s a few simple keystrokes – but that’s it!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pages in Kindle books have nothing to do with the printed pages in the hardcover or softcover equivalent. Chapters and subsections don’t always start at a page boundary. The say all (read from the cursor until I tell you to stop) doesn’t
work on my app and I noticed it wasn’t mentioned in the training! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So though this fluffy overview is a really nice start, the app isn’t going to be robust enough for anyone who needs to use a screen reader or magnification to locate sections in a book. And I have no idea if other apps like k3000 can work
with this app but I suspect they cannot.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was optimistically hoping that any issues I had with the app were caused by my own ignorance. Looks like they were not!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As much as I love using my Kindle and related apps for recreational reading, I find it super frustrating that there aren’t more navigation possibilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For your beginners, the training is archived here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://www.freedomscientific.com/webinars/connect-and-learn-accessing-the-kindle-app-for-pc-with-jaws/">
https://www.freedomscientific.com/webinars/connect-and-learn-accessing-the-kindle-app-for-pc-with-jaws/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--Debee<o:p></o:p></p>
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