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What format should I choose?

Select your format based upon:

  1. how you want to read your book, and
  2. compatibility with your reading tool.

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Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members.

  • Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
  • DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
  • BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
  • MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
  • DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
  • EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
  • Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

11 results found.

Title ISBN Author Copyright
The Wet And The Dry: A Drinker's Journey 9781409027584 Lawrence Osborne 2013
Bangkok Days 9781409087083 Lawrence Osborne 2009
Beautiful Animals 9781473520417 Lawrence Osborne 2018
Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel (Philip Marlowe) 9781473548374 Lawrence Osborne 2018
American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome 9780387218076 Lawrence Osborne 2002
Hunters in the Dark 9781473520400 Lawrence Osborne 2016
The Glass Kingdom: A Novel 9781473565203 Lawrence Osborne 2020
The Ballad of a Small Player 9781448189717 Lawrence Osborne 2014
The Forgiven 9781448155071 Lawrence Osborne 2014
On Java Road: ‘The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith’ METRO 9781473594326 Lawrence Osborne 2022
Pursuit: The Balvenie Stories Collection 9781838850029 Alex Preston, Eley Williams, David Szalay, Kamila Shamsie, Max Porter, Sara Collins, Daisy Johnson, Tash Aw, Peter Frankopan, Yan Ge, Lawrence Osborne, Katharine Kilalea, Michael Donkor, Benjamin Markovits, Sarah Churchwell 2019