Hi Ana

I have a kindle, two actually with keyboards. I also have enough vision 
to be able to turn on the speech at the system level myself.

I have not tried very much Kindle content with the PC client, 
especially the kind of string searches one needs for dictionaries.

Do you have the manual for the Kindle on a Kindle? It's like all 
manuals which means not very interesting and especially lacking in 
descriptions of the physical detail of the keys. For instnace, to find 
the search option from inside a document, you need to press a button 
that says Menu. Thie Menu buton is above the big square botton. and 
then arrow up and down using the cooresphonding sides ofthe big square 
key.... I cannot remember the sequence but a search bar opens and then 
you get to type but I do not remember there being audio feedback, I am 
a bad typist, and it's a small keyboard.

On the Kindle once you get the voice turned on and open a document 
there is a round key to the R of the spacebar that opens a menu about 
things to do with display and reading of documents....

In other words, it's a pain and there are lots ofthings i do not even 
try..

Is this a start?

Dorene C, Seattle





-----Original Message-----
From: Ana G <[log in to unmask]>
To: VICUG-L <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sat, Jan 19, 2013 7:23 pm
Subject: [VICUG-L] Reading Kindle Content on the PC

Hi all,

How do people on the list read Kindle content on the computers, or how
do you do it on your Kindle devices? I'm especially interested in
knowing how you look things up in reference books like dictionaries and
manuals.

In one of my other lives, I'm a translator, so I use dictionaries a lot
and I do a lot of selective reading and skimming of other types of
materials. While following a thread on another list, it finally 
occurred
to me that I could get bilingual dictionaries and specialized 
glossaries
as well as other goodies through Kindle. Someone on that list posted
thorough instructions on how to remove the DRM and convert the files to
other formats. Initially, I tried being a good girl and attempted to 
use
the Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plugin, but that's not at all 
right
for my use case, so I removed some DRM's and started playing with 
Stanza.

I've converted two very large dictionary files (two thousand pages 
each)
into doc files. Word is incredibly sluggish, taking about ten minutes 
to
adjust to having the file open. This is obviously not ideal, so I plan
to break the file up into segments of 50 to 100 pages.

As I was thinking about what other things I could do to make using 
these
files more realistic, I decided to post here to find out what others of
you do. A sighted friend of mine has a Kindle Keyboard, and from the
little playing I've done with it, I gather it's fine for reading, but
probably not practical for dictionary searches and other types of text
searches, but I'm not sure, so I've come to the experts.

Anyone on list a power user of Kindle files?

Ciao


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