#voicedream — Public Fediverse posts

I'm in a bit of a state of mourning today. I have discovered that I can no longer convert my #Bookshare books into text files that I can read on my PC with my Braille display in the way I've done it for over a decade. I used to do it like this: I'd download the book from Bookshare to my PC. I'd unzip the zip file and access the XML file within the folder. It used to be that this file presented itself as a webpage using Internet Explorer. I'd select and copy all text, paste into a file, and voila! A text file I could read on my PC. A while ago XML files began presenting in Microsoft Edge, and it looked like a completely blank file. However, there was an option to open in Internet
Explorer mode, and it showed up as it always had. Now, though, even that has gone away. So now I'm scrambling to find ways to read Bookshare books on my Braille display. #VoiceDream is great, and I make extensive use of it, but there's nothing like actually reading a book in Braille. If anyone has any ideas, I'm listening. I will say that I have found reading books via my iPhone is problematic for me, as every time I get a notification it interrupts the reading. Any help in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention...oh, never mind.

Even though my #AmEx didn’t like the extra charge, I’m so glad I sprung for my new #Braille display! For the first time in probably over a year, I’ve got my reading groove back! I’m in the middle of five books at the moment. While I would never say reading audiobooks isn’t reading, because it is, I find that I retain things better if I read in Braille. Also, I have the very unfortunate and extremely annoying habit of falling asleep while reading audiobooks, and then I have to go back and figure out where I was. Not that I’m abandoning #VoiceDream and #Audible, not at ll. My display is just making it easier to read more.