Re: [orca-list] eBook readers that work with Orca

["John J. Boyer" <john boyer abilitiessoft org>]

Hi Didier,

Thanks. I have installed Calibre and looked at the ebook-convert manual. Looks good.

John

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:06:55AM +0200, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> instead of using an eBook reader, you could convert the eBook to an accessible format.
>
> The utility ebook-convert, which is a command line application shipped in the calibre package, does that.
>
> calibre is basically an eBook reader and manager, unfortunately its GUI is fully inaccessible, even with 
> speech, using orca. I don't know why.
>
> ebook-convert is supposed to be able to output to all formats listed in 
> https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html but the version I installed, for reason 
> unknown to me, can not convert an eBook to all these formats, forv instance not to html, anyway rtf and txt 
> formats are available, which should be good enough.
>
> There is a man page: man ebook-convert and a short help text: ebook-convert -h. 
>
> ebook-convert is shipped in the calibre package for Debian Bullseye. 
>
> HTH,
>
> Didier
>
>
> Le 13/09/2020 à 14:17, John J. Boyer a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > On further reflection, considering the number of audio packages that would be installed if I went ahead 
> > with the installation of ebok-speaker 
> > I think that this application must be self-voicing and does not use the facilities of the screenreader. 
> > It therefore does not support Braille. 
> >
> > I wonder why  people make self-voicing applications, instead of just making them screenreader friendly.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 05:35:25PM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does ebook-speaker work with Braille? I am deaf-blind. When I typed apt install ebok-speaker it listed a 
> > > lot of audio libraries which I will never use.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > John
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:14:54AM +0200, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> > > > Hello John,
> > > > ebook-speaker.
> > > >
> > > > In Bullseye you get version 5.4.0. That's good enough however Jos Lemeens just released version 5.5.2.
> > > >
> > > > You can get it directly from his website  http://jlemmens.nl/
> > > >
> > > > Download link of the Debian binary package:
> > > > http://www.jlemmens.nl/homepage/ebook-speaker_5.5.2-1_amd64.deb
> > > > Installation:
> > > > dpkg -i ebook-speaker_5.5.2-1_amd64.deb
> > > >
> > > > Caveat: I don't know how it plays with orca and a Braille device.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway Jos is nice guy, I'm sure he will help you if need be:
> > > > acjlemmens at gmail.com
> > > >
> > > > Happy reading!
> > > >
> > > > Didier
> > > >
> > > > Le 12/09/2020 à 23:43, John J. Boyer a écrit :
> > > > > I have Debian Bullseye, Mate and the latest release of Orca that is available on Debian. What ebook 
> > > > > readers would work with this setup?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > John
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