#victorreader — Public Fediverse posts

Erm... to any Victor Reader Stream 3 users...how in the world do I make it detect epub books on my internal SD card? I've tried putting them in both $VR_Text and $VR_OtherBooks, including inside subfolders, and it just never shows either category. The only way I got the text bookshelf to show up is by putting a text file in there? Halp?
I will also say, what a great out of the box experience for non techies, which is probably the primary audience for a device that takes a tripple digit number of milliseconds to even start speaking a string. Sheesh, talk about artificial delay.
Edit: and today in baffling UX choices...you put them in $VT_DTB. So...all your epub books show up on the "talking books" bookshelf. I...guess that kind of makes sense for epubs that can embed audio, but most of them...like...don't do that, and despite them both being zips with XML in them, epub != DAISY. Ah well, at least I got it figured out at least. Thanks @ricky_enger and @ginsenshi!
#VictorReader #Stream3 #Blind

Audiobook player with non-essential buttons blanked out.
Used electrical tape front and back.

Humanware supply a "shield" which blanks some buttons.
But Pitch, Speed & Eject buttons still add unnecessary complexity.

Device is from the "disability aids" industry, so very overpriced.
But paid for by the #AustralianGovernment as part of DEI. (They don't call it that - but the Trumpists know what it is.)

#AssistiveDevices

#AudiobookPlayer #Dementia #Blind
#HumanWare #VictorReader #Stratus

Well this sucks. Could've sworn you could read #Epub files in #VictorReader on the #BrailliantBI20 but I just tried opening one and I was told no application supports it. WTF #Humanware ? And yes, I know I can just read these files off my phone, but I don't always want to do that. So I just downloaded 123 Epub files from Dropbox for nothing I guess. BTW, I have a ton of stuff from #Bookshare on the Brailliant already, think I might have an addiction issue here. #BookHoarderProblems