![]() ![]() Impressively the program seems to autosave all the notes you insert automatically and are available when you next open the book. The really powerful feature of this app which I had not previously appreciated is that you can have full freedom to edit the text of the book you are reading and add notes if you would wish. The Reading Keys are simlar to that available in Notepad. The book opens, then pleasingly with all the disclaimers etc from Gutenberg edited out with simply the book contents available for normal reading. ![]() Once you have found the book you want you can simply press enter which will download the book and make it available for reading. Once in the list of authors and their associated book titles you can cursor up and down to browse the gbooks available for download.Īs even in this sub-divided lists there are at least hundereds if not thousands of entries a search function is essential and this is easily provided by pressing Control F and entering your search term which will jump you straight to the book you are looking for. So you will have Author A, which will open a list of all authors beginning with A, Author B and so on. To make the list more manageable the catalog is organised in a set of alphabbetical lists. You can opt to have the books sorted by Title or by Author. The first interface is Catalog view which allows you to browse the entire Catalog of the thousands of ebooks available on Gutenberg. When you open the Gutenberg App you are offered three main interfaces. This is not a long term assessment as I have only downloaded and sampled 4 books but the experience has been very positive so far. To my surprise on Windows 10 at least I have found using the app extremely smooth and without problem. ![]() ![]() I ran the program more in hope than expectation, fully expecting the problems which may have prompted its removal from the main Accessibility Apps bundle to rear its ugly head. The headline of my experience using this app over the weekend is that, with the variety of voices now available with Jaws, and even the free and low cost voice options with NVDA I think Accessible Gutenberg may be a forgotten gem of a program which is highly suited for ebook reading, especially if used in conjunction with a Windows Tablet. This application similarly tries to act as an simplified Front End for the Project Gutenberg public domain eBook website. Given the positive experience I had with using Speak On as A Front End for the RNIB Newsagent website I thought I would have another look at the Webbie Accessible Gutenberg application. Download Gutenberg Library Installer (Windows MSI file)ĭavid Griffith,, on the Access UK mailing list.Books are stored on your computer until you want to delete them, and the program will keep your place as you read so you can come back to your books any time. Accessible Gutenberg lets you browse their directory of 20,000 books, download one and read it simply and easily. Project Gutenberg takes public domain, out-of-copyright books and makes them available for free in text. Note that as of February 2019 the program isn't working - sorry!Īccessible Gutenberg Library lets you access the excellent Project Gutenberg and download and read any one of thousands of books for free. ![]()
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