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		<title>Abercrombie on the First Law Audiobooks</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/abercrombie-on-the-first-law-audiobooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged before about how much I enjoyed Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s books and about my quest to have them released as audio books (See Best Served Cold (&#38; Audible), The First Law Series Going Audible and Best Served Audible). Abercrombie reports today on his blog in &#8220;First Law Audiobooks&#8221; that his debut series is being recorded. So they&#8217;re currently recording the audiobooks of the First Law, due out in June as downloads, and I dropped into the studio on Monday to see how it was going. They&#8217;re unabridged, so it&#38;apos;s taking them sixteen full days of recording, and when I got there they were just starting on Before They Are Hanged. Abercrombie goes on to talk about how he felt about his visit to the studio during the recordings. Apparently, studios and narrators do not consult with the author over pronunciation and character voices. I am very surprised.  Authors are regularly consulted over film adaptations, so why not for audio editions? Either way, Abercrombie was pleased with the progress. I look forward to listening to them! Read more in First Law Audiobooks. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:The First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPad &amp; the Advent of Accessible Photography Books</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/02/ipad-photo-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible photography books (and magazines). I rarely read books about photography. The font is universally too small, the books too heavy and there are no audio editions. The iPad has the possibility of changing this. Blio is supposedly designed to enrich the e-reading experience with audio, video and web content. On a device like the iPad, with its large, high-resolution color screen, we could see the release of more photography-related media. With text-to-speech, we could even see the advent of accessible photography books and magazines.I can imagine looking at full-screen images while listening to the accompanying text. Not only would this a be a great format for re-releasing books by the masters, but this would also be a great format for every photographer with a story to tell. Scott Bourne has already expounded about the iPad’s potential as a digital portolio. On his Photofocus blog post, What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Audiobooks: Another Success</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/01/in-defense-of-audiobooks-another-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March of 2006, I contacted the author of an economics book that I was interested in reading. This was part of a personal campaign to encourage authors to produce audio editions of their books, blogged here.  The author graciously responded, offering to bring the subject up with his publisher. I have heard from other authors that this is where the difficulties lie. Authors do not control whether an audio version is recorded. This depends on the legal status of the audio and digital rights, on the publisher&#8217;s whim and on the perceived demand. Despite the challenges, a request to the publisher from the author carries a lot more weight than one from me. There was not further communication from the author, so I assumed that this suggestions had languished with so many others. Out of the blue, the book,  In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati, appeared recently on Audible.com with no fanfare. I noted it only by keeping my eye on the &#8216;Just Added&#8217; list of new books released on Audible.com. Thank you, Professor Bhagwati. I hope other follow in your footsteps. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Served Cold (&amp; Audible)</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2010/01/best-served-cold-audible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite new authors is Joe Abercrombie. A few year ago, he published The First Law trilogy, a dark fantasy series, followed recently by Best Served Cold, a novel set I&#8217;m the First Law world. I picked up the first nook in the trilogy a few years ago in paperback and was immediately hooked. I do not read many books in print (though lots in audio), so this was a big deal for me. As I wrote earlier, a while back, I contacted the author via his web site to suggest audio versions of his books. Abercrombie responded and followed up the request, but met with the usual red tape faced by authors. The decision to produce an audio version lies more with the publishers, though, but Abercrombie put in a request. A few months ago, I heard the audio version was en route. Just a few days ago, Best Served Cold, Abercrombie&#8217;s latest, arrived on Audible.com&#8217;s virtual shelves. Yeah! Now I can finish reading it. I have the Kindle edition, but have not gotten past the first few chapters. With the Kindle app on my iPod (set to the light-on-dark color scheme and to the giant font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variable Speed Playback on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Updated for iPhone 3.0 @ Accessing Audiobook Speed on iPhone 3.0] Speeding up a recording used to make it sound like Alvin &#38; the Chipmunks. Growing up, I had a cassette player for the blind that had a variable speed playback control. Being a kid, I used it mainly for entertainment value. Fun was had with friends making the narrators sound silly. Slide the bar up to get the fast, high-pitched tones of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Slide it down and you get slow, sonorous speech. I never used the cassette player much. It was more of a novelty. My sight was still good enough to read books without glasses even though I had to do it close up and with lots of eye strain and headaches. Those days are long over. Now I rely much more on audio books. I have never learned to get along well with the cassette players designed for the blind. Instead, I listen mostly to books that I get from audible.com. In the early days, I listen to these books on a variety of MP3 players. At some point, though, I settled on and have stuck with Apple&#8217;s iPods. I had an early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible Navigation</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/kindles-crystal-ball-accessible-navigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on The Mac-cessibility Site, Anazon&#8217;s Kindle team is working on some accessibility improvements. The main focus seems to be on voice feedback during navigation. The lack of an audio interface meant that the Kindle text-to-speech feature, Talk to Me, would not be accessible to blind users without the help of a sighted person. Introducing audio feedback completes the loop for the independent use of the Kindle by the visually impaired. According to the Amazon Kindle&#8217;s Blog: We&#8217;ve heard from many of our blind or vision impaired customers who are excited about Kindle 2&#8242;s text to speech technology. Some of these customers have asked that we make Kindle even easier for them by adding navigation accessible to the blind. We want to let those customers know that this is something we are working on and we look forward to making it available in the future. &#8211;The Amazon Kindle Team As is pointed out on The Mac-cessibility Site,  this features&#8217;s usefulness depends on the available of TTS-enabled content on the Kindle. As Amazon has surrenedered contorl of TTS to the publishing industry, it is vital that publishers and authors grant TTS access to their Kindle publicaitons for this accessibility improvement to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelf Access</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/large-print-ideas/bookshelf-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot. I always have. But as my eyesight has deteriorated, I have had to find alternative ways to get my fix. Audiobooks have been key, mostly bought from Audible.com in recent years. Lately, smartphones and dedicated e-book readers have begun to offer an accessible alternative. There is still a big trade-off between content and accessibility. Over the years, I have accumulated many posts on the subject of building an accessible bookshelf. Here&#8217;s the card catalog: e-Book Readers Kindle’s Crystal Ball: Accessible Navigation: Spotted on The Mac-cessibility Site, Anazon&#8217;s Kindle team is working on some accessibility improvements. The main focus seems to be on voice feedbac Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible: A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. &#8220;We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new &#8230; One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access: Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author&#8217;s Guild. Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB’s Blog: Following up on my rant against the Blount Op-Ed piece, the AFB has a well-written (much better than mine) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will it Kill the Kindle?</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/will-it-kill-the-kindle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortcovers will be an app for mobile devices, including the iPhone, that turns your device into an e-book reader. The release date is imminent (allegedly). I still am unconvinced that mobile device screens are big enough for sustained reading. More details when the app arrives. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Bookshelf AccessAccessing your Kindle on the iPhoneShortcovers &#8211; How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimesAccessible e-Reading: Google Books]]></description>
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		<title>Slashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/slashdot-authors-guild-says-kindles-text-to-speech-software-illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted on Slashdot, Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. &#8220;The Author&#8217;s Guild claims that the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the right to read a book out loud,&#8221; said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. &#8220;That&#8217;s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.&#8221; Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn&#8217;t copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person&#8217;s nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild&#8217;s claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance.&#8221; why is there such a conflict between accessibility and copyright? It seems to me the lot of accessibility issues are a side effect of copyright protection. Digital rights management, (DRM), as always impeded the flow of accessible information. The Library of Congress has thousands of volumes of text in audio format, but does not release it digitally because of fears of copyright infringement. Publishers are afraid of accessible electronic books in open formats, such as PDF, for the same reason. The music industry seems ready to abandon DRM. Apple&#8217;s iTunes has begun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible e-Reading: Google Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Google announced that its Book Search would be available for iPhone and other mobile device users. I like to read, so I thought I would see how it works and how accessible it is. I looked at another e-book reader, Stanza, in an earlier post, so I will look at the differences. As noted in the NY Times article on the accouncement, Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones, the key feature is the use of text rather than images. Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks. [PC Workd also has a good summary of the announcment.] Google has done this for the same reason as Adobe does in its Reflow command, using text allows the text to be reformatted easily for different screens and devices. Using text has a great side benefit as well, making the text accessible to accessibility modifications and to screen readers. I have never been able to use Google Book Search on my computer since the images are not amenable to my color and font [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/02/read-it-to-me-kindle-20-has-text-to-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times, along with every other news source, is reporting on the new version of Amazon&#8217;s e-book reader, the Kindle.Buried among all the other changes is one important accessibility feature: text-to-speech. According to the Times: Giving Voice to the Kindle: The Kindle 2 also has text-to-speech built in. “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can be read aloud,” Mr. Bezos said. Users can switch between reading text and hearing it read by a fairly computerized voice. “It’s very easy to go back and forth between reading and listening,” Mr. Bezos said I have tested out the first version, as my wife has the Kindle 1.0. With its adjustable font size set to the maximum, I can read the text fairly easily with my low vision reading glasses. I look forward to testing out the new text-to-speech feature when I find someone with the new version. The new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech offers two voices, male and female, and does not offer variable speed playback. I really like the variable spped playback on the iPod, though I wish it had more than three settings. We will have to wait on reviews of the reading quality, but Nuance, who provides the Kindle&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Strobist Companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are getting caught up in photography and want to ride the minimalist (Strobist) wave, as good a place to start as any is Kirk Tuck&#8217;s Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography. Along with the Strobist blog and lighting guide, this is a detailed, useful, practical, concrete, and helpful guide to getting to the next level of photography without investing in cumbersome and expensive equipment. For more details about my experience with the Strobist approach and the accompanying difficulties of being visually impaired, check out my earlier post, Didactylos’ Strobe. As Hobby puts it on the Strobist Bookshelf: This one is 100% small flash, and spends plenty of time of gear, synching and light mods. It is more of an introductory book than the titles above, and better suited for less experienced shooters who want a good look at how to gear up with small flash and how to start using it. Minimalist Lighting has two main sections. The first is a great guide to the equipment one needs to do minimalist lighting. From batteries to flashes, stands to reflectors, bags to clamps, you will find the items you need to get the job done. The second major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind Photography Listmania</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/blind-photography-listmania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have begun compiling a list of books (and DVDs if there are any) by and/or about blind photographers. Blind Photographers, named for the flickr group for visually-impaired photographers, currently only has four titles, including Seeing Beyond Sight and Shooting Blind. Please check it out. PS Let me know if you have any additions. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Low Vision Gadgets: Amazon ListmaniaFlickr: Blind PhotographersThe Touch Sight cameraBest of Blind PhotographersBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind Photography]]></description>
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		<title>Stanza &#8211; Accessible E-Book Reader for the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2008/11/stanza-accessible-e-book-reader-for-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scanning through the Personal Tech section of the Times, I bumped into an interesting tidbit, &#8220;Tip of the Week &#8211; Turn Your iPhone Into an e-Book &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8220;. I have an iPod Touch (the iPhone sans phone), so I ws intrigued, though remaining skeptical, by this tip. I just downloaded the app, Stanza, to my iPod and fell in love. On a technical level, it is a perfect application of accessibility for a visually impaired user.To the right, you can see a piece of the settings screen for Stanza. The app is highly, helpfully and eassily adjustable. The font sizes can be adjusted with a very wide range. You can select font and background colors with a wide selection of choices, not just a simple reverse color scheme option. Font size can be adjusted on a simple slide bar. All these changes are reflected immediately in the sample text window at the top. Even line spacing in adjustable. The screen rotates with the iPod, so you can read it wide screen with all its advantages. Pages can be turned with a simple flick on the screen. Best of all, it retains your choice of settings. I could not be happier [...]]]></description>
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