Favorite reading apps?

By Tristan, 12 October, 2013

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iOS and iPadOS
I'm looking for a good, sturdy and reliable reading app for my iPhone. I've used Bard Mobile, as well as the Audible app, however I am looking for the best app out there that is accessible with voice over whilst providing a satisfactory textual reading experience. I've tried Voice Dream Reader, and have been told iLike2Read is good. I am very hesitant to pay the $9.99 price tag on Voice Dream, however. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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By yorkshire-drew on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 21:47

Audible, Voice Dream Reader, and Kindle are rather different animals. Audible plays audiobooks recorded by human narrators. Voice Dream Reader is a TTS app which reads aloud non-DRM protected e-books using a variety of synthetic voices which you can purchase for $2 or thereabouts. Kindle (like audible) is a free app but will read DRM protected books in the Kindle format. It can only use the Voiceover voice however. I cannot comment on the BARD app as it is only available to US blind people, I live in the United Kingdom. Another app you might want to consider is iBooks. It's very similar to Kindle in that it reads aloud the DRM protected books available from the Apple iBooks store. This app will also read non-DRM protected e-books in EPUB format. It uses the Voiceover voice. All the above are very accessible. Personally I use Kindle for books from Amazon, Voice Dream for any other open-source e-books and Audible for my audiobooks.

By allseed on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 21:47

Along with the E book theme barnes and noble's nook app is accessible and with it you can read nook books. bookshare has an app called read to go which does more that book share I think. Bleo allows you to purchase high priced books from the NFB affiliated store and Bard mobile allows you to listen to els audio books and read electronic braille books with your bluetooth braille display. You can read books from google with the google play book app although I've not yet found a book to read. I probably left somebody out but we've got a pretty good list here.

By allseed on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 21:47

The reason why voice dream reader costs is because of the engine it uses which does a good job of present material through the voices from which you can select. Ilike to read is free as far as I know, I have it and it's ok. A lot of what goes into the decision though is personal choice and sadly, there is no way to buy before you try unless you know someone who has something you want to take for a spin.