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	<title>tim o'brien photos &#187; kindle</title>
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		<title>The First Law Series Going Audible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, author Joe Abercrombie announced that his new book, Best Served Cold will be released in the US on the Kindle. I have found the Kindle app on my iPod Touch to be very readable on the largest font setting  and with the inverse color scheme (white text on a black background). Despite this, I still prefer to listen to books than read them. It saves eyestrain and often the narration is qutie good. Joe Abercrombie&#8217;s debut dark fantasy trilogy, The Frist Law, caught my attention in the bookstore when the first book came out here in the US. I read the first chapter in the bookstore cafe, took it home and jut could not put it down. There were no electronic or audio editions. The books were released early in the UK, so I had a friend pick me up the next two while he was visiting. These are a few of the very short list  of fiction books I have read in paper in the last decade. As I noted in Best Served Cold, I have occasionally pestered the author by email about releasing audio version. Joe has been incredibly responsive to my requests, but the hold up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the New Kindle DX</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/05/new-kindle-dx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I garnered some First Impressions of the New Kindle DX from the NYTimes&#8217;s Gadgetwise Blog. According to the post, the new Kindle DX&#8216;s main feature is its larger size. The DX has a 9.7-inch display, which the company says is 2 1/2 times the size of the Kindle 2. But the device doesn’t feel or look as large as a sheet of copier paper. It won’t give you the feeling of reading an entire page of a newspaper. You read the paper by flipping through it, article by article. With a price tag just south of $500, this e-book reader ought to have some bang for these big bucks. The larger screen is great, but what does this mean for the visually impaired? The Kindle already comes with a hobbled text to speech function and a narrow choic of font sizes. Rumors have it that Amazon engineers are looking at adding an audio interface option. Digging a little deeper on the Kindle DX s web site, I found a list of the DX&#8217;s fetures that might be useful for the visually imapired. Auto-Rotating Screen By simply turning the device, you can immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Rights to Protest at the Author&#8217;s Guild Today</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/04/reading-rights-to-protest-at-the-authors-guild-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reading Rights coalition is organizing a protest today against the restrictions on the new Kindle&#8217;s text-to-speech feature. At noon in NYC, you can watch the event online. Please support us by joining our informational picket in front of the Authors Guild’s headquarters at 31 East 32nd Street in downtown Manhattan on April 7, 2009 at 12:00 p.m andSign the Petition: We Want to Read. The Reading Rights coalition describes itself as follows. The Reading Rights Coalition formed to represent 15 million Americans who cannot read print because of blindness, dyslexia, spinal cord injury and other print disabilities.  This includes school children, the elderly, professionals, college students, returning veterans, and your neighbors, family members and friends.  We want to buy and read books.  We have fought very hard for many years to have equal access to technology and information. The Reading Rights coalition offeres informationa nd petitions related to the Kindle, so, if yo miss the noon protest, a visit to their website is still worthwhile. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:COAT Petition: Access to Technology LegislationSlashdot &#124; Author&#8217;s Guild Says Kindle&#8217;s Text-To-Speech Software IllegalBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines and blogs while on the go; and the ability, at the click of a button, to own one of hundreds of thousands of titles in seconds. I can&#8217;t add much more without having tested the devices myself. So I’ve come around on my opposition to e-book. Somewhat. With a device like the Kindle, I could see myself reading happily on the train and buying books instantly. Despite these added conveniences, I don’t think e-books will replace books anytime soon. It is probably time that these devices are compared from an accessibility point of view. Care to lend me one? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing your Kindle on the iPhoneRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechBookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageAccessing the New Kindle DX]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. &#8220;The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in sync and read everywhere you go. Readers on the iPhone also now get access to over 200,000 ebook titles on the Amazon Kindle storefront. Check out the hands-on image gallery and video of the Amazon Kindle software on the iPhone and Kindle 2.&#8221; via Slashdot &#124; Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. The Slashdot article links to a decent review of the new app and how it words. But how accessible is this new app? Being visually impaired makes me skeptical of reading on my iPod Touch. But it is not impossible, there are several decent e-book reader apps already on the iPhone platform, including the feature rich, but content poor, Stanza and the content rich, but accessibility poor, Shortcovers. My wife has a first generation Kindle, so I tapped into her account to test out the new Kindle app. The only accessibility feature the Kindle app [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com &amp; a Chief Accessibility Officer</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/accessibility-amazon-the-kindle-audiblecom-a-chief-accessibility-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is there a moral duty for this, but a fiduciary one as well. The market for accessible products is only beginning to bloom as the baby boomers stat to retire. As tech savvy customers age and their eyesight fades, there will be a strong market impetus towards offering accessibility. The first issue facing Amazon is this Kindle controversy over the Talk to Me feature. Offering this capability makes the Kindle 2 nearly the holy grail of accessible reading devices for the visually impaired. Yet, allowing the publishers to disable text to speech reduces the accessibility of the device and may lose a significant market for the Kindle. Amazon needs someone who can find solutions for this situation. Perhaps Amazon should partner with the National Library Service for the Blind to provide TTS-enabled books to qualified individuals until the publishers see that Talk to Me is in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/petition-to-make-the-kindle-fully-accessible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use of this innovative product. Amazon could really extend the text-to-speech function with variable speed playback. The Kindle could also use an audio interface for the profoundly blind. The scalable font size could have larger options. I, for one, would appreciage an inberted colors scheme with light font on a darck background. Some of these features would be easier than others for Amazon to implement. But they won&#8217;t implement any without understanding the need. Help them. Sign the petition. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Kindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationBookshelf AccessKindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s BlogRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechCOAT Petition: Access to Technology Legislation]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author&#8217;s Guild &#8211; Amazon Backs off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle &#8211; Bits Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com. The new Talk To Me feature, a form of text to speech, in Amazon&#8217;s Kindle will be disabled at the whim of the publisher. How many publishers will not exercise the option to kill TTS? This will likely undo the biggest advance in accessible reading devices since the large print book. Therefore, we are modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title. We have already begun to work on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice. With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled. We believe many will decide that it is. If the publishers do choose to kill TTS, Amazon should enable this feature for the blind. They should partner with the NLS. Anyone who qualifies for the NLS&#8217; services should be able to register with Amazon for TTS enabled books. Somehow I do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my rant against the Blount Op-Ed piece, the AFB has a well-written (much better than mine) blog post on the same issue: Kindle sparks a flame war, but fails to light the fire for accessibility &#8211; AFB&#8217;s Blog. While the Kindle offers text-to-speech options, it doesn&#8217;t include talking menus or fully accessible controls, which makes it impossible for people with vision loss to use independently. The good news is that it&#8217;s an easy fix for Amazon since the Kindle 2 is already voice enabled. AFB, and other blindness organizations, are urging Amazon to address this immediately. With baby boomers aging and the number of people experiencing vision loss expected to increase significantly, more and more people will need technology like the Kindle to have talking menus and full speech capability. Not only is the post worth reading, but there is a link to a petiion asking Amazon to extend the Kindle&#8217;s acessibility features. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Bookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageBlog AccessibiltyKindle&#8217;s Crystal Ball: Accessible NavigationAccessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com &#038; a Chief Accessibility Officer]]></description>
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		<title>Shortcovers &#8211; How Accessible is this Kindle Competitor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortcovers, the alleged Kindle killer, went live this morning. So what is shorcovers? It is a e-book service built around mobile devices. The idea is to read books on your iPhone, your Blackberry or whichever smart phone you might use. Unlike other great e-book software, like Stanza, shortcovers is paired with a commercial bookstore backed by the publishing industry. In other words, shortcovers offers books you might actually want to read. shortcovers.com – Find your next great read: Discover thousands of books, chapters, news and magazine articles, short stories, blog posts and more, anywhere, anytime online and on your mobile device. Great Reads at Your Fingertips: Shortcovers.com works like you think. It’s intuitive. To find your next great read, simply search by author, title or keyword. Or you can browse for content by topic, author or popularity. Once you’ve found something great to read, simply bookmark it—we’ll add it to your Library and create an I’m Reading List just for you. Take Your Reads with You: Whether you’re online or on your mobile, you’ll always have access to your shortcovers.com Reading list and Library. With your I’m Reading list, we keep track of your most recent reads. Plus, when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On today&#8217;s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author&#8217;s Guild, has penned a piece, The Kindle Swindle?, defending his organizations attack on the new text to speech (TTS) feature in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Over at O&#8221;Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount, Jr. on the Occasion of Him Speaking Like a Dinosaur, which offers good counterarguments on the issue of TTS and audio rights. My purpose is to point out his ingorant dismissal of the blind. In his words: What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle 2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal for blind people to use “readers, either human or machine, to access books that are not available in alternative formats like Braille or audio.” In fact, publishers, authors and American copyright laws have long provided for free audio availability to the blind and the guild is all for technologies that expand that availability. (The federation, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will it Kill the Kindle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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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