Here's yet more info about one more site with books that have worked for
MS reader with free material.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott D. Hendershot" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: microsoft reader
Hi Marsha,
Well, if your in to Science Fiction you can go here:
http://www.baen.com/
There is a free library at this site containing quite a few free E-Books
which you can get in many formats including RTF or the lit format that
the MS Reader uses.
I have personally purchased books from the 2 following sites and they
have worked perfectly with the speech portion of MS Reader.
Fictionwise:
http://www.fictionwise.com/
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/103-9032376-45318
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Fictionwise has a much larger selection of Science Fiction books in the
lit format but they both have some good ones!
Look around, I'm sure you will find more books suited to your taste and
everyone of the 6 E-Books I have bought since this version of MS Reader
has come out has worked fine, and the cost is so low for these E-Books
that it's worth a try anyway!
I mean the first book I purchased, which was from Amazon cost 2 dollars
and 65 cents!
The most expensive one I have gotten was less than 5 bucks!
And buying it on line was easy!
I tell you, it is so cool to be able to go to the same place where
everybody else goes to buy my books and I don't have to wait 6 months or
a year for the newest releases!!!
It's so cool!
If you're an avid reader like me your going to love this thing!
I just wish I could change speech engines, I mean the MSTTS 5.0 voices
are terrible but they are, well, listenable I guess.
I have also purchased E-Books in the PDF format to use with the Adobe
E-Book reader from Fictionwise but that Adobe E-Book reader is very
unstable! Not to mention difficult to use, the MS Reader is _much
easier!
Hope this helps!
Later, Scott
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marsha Macchi [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 4:05 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: microsoft reader
Hi, Marsha here. These shortcut keys are all well and good but how do
you know which books are in that format? Does anyone have any sites
from which I can surf to see where these books can be found and also
where I can get audiobooks or other such that use this format?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Marsha
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