new complete translation of _Carmina Burana_

[kestrell]

I am really lusting after this book

_The Carmina Burana: Songs from Benediktbeuern (Second Edition)_
by Tariq William Marshall (Apr 15, 2013)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Carmina-Burana-Benediktbeuern-Edition/dp/1481117599

which is not available in e-format, although a reviewer claims that an extra when you buy the paper book is a downloadable version.

As the format being used for the downloadable files is PDF, which has about a fifty-fifty chance of being accessible with my screenreader program, I am wondering if anyone has bought this book and tried out the downloadable content, specifically, is the PDF just image files, and does it have the highest setting of DRM attached, which locks out screen readers?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I wish I had answers for you, but I think it's criminal that Amazon won't tell you that information.

(The 80s nurses-in-Vietnam TV series "China Beach" is finally available on DVD. Nobody had any info on captions; I finally tracked down the producer who said "nope." Poor choice given the target audience is all rapidly losing their hearing.)

Grr arrgh.

[kestrell]

Come the revolution, all those aging baby boomers will be rioting with white canes and wheelchairs, bashing oblivious Web site designers in the knees and running over their toes, and you and I will be in our glory, my friend.

In my experience, Amazon is still much better than Barnes and Noble, whose Web site is still amazingly inaccessible in parts (I can't reliably attempt to buy something and end up with precisely what I wanted to put in my cart, for instance). For this book, B&N had a note with a buried link a level or so further down which said "Request this book in Nook format from the publisher," which turned out to be the equivalent of the easy-to-find link that Amazon includes which says "Tell the publisher you would like to read this on the Kindle."

Also, this book seems to have been independently published by the author, and those books tend to have less info because, I believe, the authors frequently do not think to include as much information about the book as experienced publishers would.

[siderea]

I am completely confused. The blurb says it's a scholarly facing-page edition. The look-inside-this-book feature not only has only English, the page numbers make it clear nothing is being skipped.

I actually would kinda very much like a complete edition of the Carmina Burana in facing page translation to English. I'm trying to decide if I want it $27 worth; now is not the right moment for me to be spending that money, and it doesn't have any music in it. But I am very tempted.