-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi Yup, this is completely accurate. You can open the xml file up in firefox. However, there are a number of problems with this approach. You don't get a nice sorted list of books by title, firefox does not restore your reading position to the point you were when you stopped the book, and the bigger the book, the longer firefox takes to open it. I've been thinking on this long and hahrd for a while, and I think the biggest problem of all isn't necessarily the daisy standard itself, but the restrictive and draconian series of laws that allow agencies to record books in specific formats for the blind. Because the riaa and other corporations are usually on the standards body's boards, they can implement, or push for, drm in the standards. Even epub has an optional drm mechanism if I remember correctly. Until the fear of piracy, I hate that term, goes away, us blind people are going to continue to be forced to deal with a ton of inconvenience. Unless, of course, we run windows. Then it will all "just work." Sorry, I'm a little bitter. It's not easy to use linux, and deal with the knowledge that if I just gave up my open source principals and switched back to windows, I could have all the convenient software I don't have now. It's hard, and grates on a guy after a while. Thanks Kendell clark
tim wrote: > I think this is a fabulous Idea! as it stands, there's only 1 > Daisy player I know of for GNU/Linux, and thats only capable of > playing cd's with a daisy book on them that I am aware of, there > isn't a proper reader for say, reading bookshare books, etc, yes, > you can read them in Firefox with the XML file, but still! the hole > thing DRM and all leaves a lot to be desired, I don't think you can > even listen to or read Bard books on Linux, Storm wrote a nice > script to make the task of downloading/unzipping Bard books a bit > easier, but thats about as far as it goes I believe. Lol I could > go on a rant about the hole DRM thing, Learning ally, bookshare etc > on hear but maybe that's best for the article. On 5/13/15 16:29, > kendell clark wrote: hi all I've been thinking about writing an > article on opensource.com to expand on my accessibility in linux > article. This one will be discussing the challenges us blind people > face when trying to read the same books as sighted people, > primarily revolving around the only blind specific standard for > these books, the digital accessible information system, or daisy. > Highlights will include problems with the spec, the drm mechanism, > the audio formats it supports, and general disinterest in the blind > linux community in supporting the format. Any thoughts? Should I > cover something else? I'm still new to writing open source > articles, and feedback is very much welcome Thanks Kendell clark > Sent from Sonar GNU/Linux >> >> _______________________________________________ Osdc-list mailing >> list | This is a place for our readers, writers, moderators and >> artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and >> otherwise do the work that makes this a community practicing the >> open source way. >> >> Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: >> http://opensource.com/email-newsletter >> >> Send a message: [email protected] Change preferences: >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list Unsubscribe: >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVVRWxAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdL7YQAJCGjTsGlT+Yy7yqKqqNtGV0 jVT93MwRBrYbAjU8fKzmsmvYn43D5650jH1SupC21g1D/FBRUj7gITjXOTrz4E+b BRtLU1FCxU6e0zdquRNy9sWWqSCG77XHM5LgqwpG4J0DM9TRjCSJ19FwKUjVHEkG URgFZvcb4BvWrtRfpIDzkpztIDmFt3ddmhkB6m1x5B0NieI+CvsjbuWN7xk88tHU nT7GHWtW9XPR7dPYKZ4YMj8m1sGJ/sYucu9hm2s/sJFeYXKP03YoByTmg5IhzU/I gDKwEgzt3S7p6bT9isUmEXNa03jaYBYy0nyhiS5icphGBuMn2iNpatB9erwLqRmA 0Db+tzCo3zMVv0aJgaeEEmwXPB3t7ADsu/kosb6SKF8WUdd/+aZMidD59dsxYwag NSx7v4CxBkTdnAf9GguP8eVKplXQBRKsqoB597iosfUkd1cPbHrqsgIYAO5KsD72 jbI5AhrU7YnZ5YmgqRY7d7GpGpLI5B4S/A0ENH7QpiF9kimEe7a/oIJgCj0nozgC 2Fqj40TWeB4/Ech0piacKlSDyMPT5DD5sca2ysW0yeO+atMy5mCJIsmJc1f4lLBM P2UZ3OOeMck7LQDU3oNMGBto0Qr8MIXaihM9fMKFUXzCRha/Um/5TOT6Om1ikOPU 4rIh+rry+OD0TxmoxxS7 =USqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Osdc-list mailing list | This is a place for our readers, writers, moderators and artists to discuss matters concerning Opensource.com and otherwise do the work that makes this a community practicing the open source way. Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Send a message: [email protected] Change preferences: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list Unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/options/osdc-list
