The manual mentions iTunes is better if I want to sync music, which I don't, but I may wish to sync books, either ebooks or audiobooks, in the future, so I assume iTunes is better for this also?
My goal is to be able to read ebooks on my iPhone and, if I can find accessible ways of doing so, create digital voice notes, listen to BBC radio,listen to the occasional podcast, and maybe try out some of the accessible iPhone audio games. Being able to back up voice mail and text messages sounds useful. I'll try the program you recommend. So far, I don't think I have even been able to get iTunes to discover my iPhone. The online manual claims that iTunes should be showing me an iPhone button to click on, but I haven't found it yet, and would be just as glad to have an option where I don't have to use iTunes.
Btw, the Hadley School for the Blind has a pile of videos, also available in downloadable mp3 and transcription formats, of how to use iPhone and iPad, in both low-vision and blind options.
I've also been getting more familiar with my new Kindle.
One of the advantages of Amazon's monomania is that your Kindle device and any Kindle app (iPhone,PC, Android) all sync to Amazon's own cloud. Actually, I think each ebook vendor's proprietary reader syncs to their own clouds. Right now, it seems that Kindle and KyBook 3 offer the most ways to interact with text. I always want to highlight text and attach a note to it, then export the quote & commentary as markdown to a text editor--I can do that in KyBook and Instapaper, but not Kindle. KyBook 3 requires me to de-DRM books before I can view them; don't know how it would handle a Bookshare file.
Just in case, you know about the AppleVis fora, right?
I do use bookmarks but, although I know there are ways for some of the assistive tech ebook readers to create notes/annotations, I've never really tried using that function. My method is to create a DRM-free plaintext file, and then add my notes actually in the text, using the string . Then I retitle that file TitleOfBook annotated.txt, and when I want to locate my notes, just search for the <kes .
It doesn't have the immediate functionality of the more integrated notes, but it works across different readers and editors, and it lets me easily "see" the note in context and edit it.
I use two tools to do this--Gladys and Drafts. Both support dictation, extensive share sheets, and Shortcuts.
Frankly my brain is too watery to create Shortcuts, and there are script-happy communities that create them. Theoretically, Shortcuts would mean you could select something then say "Siri, clip that to my non-fiction file" and the text would be appended there.
Argh! I just began writing a Dreamwidth entry about my first 24 hours with my new iPhone, and I accidentally closed the window and lost everything.
Is there a way to get that back? perhaps a draft version through Dreamwidth?
Did I mention that, by the time I could order my iPhone, all that was left was "rose gold," and yes, that means pink.
A new cover is on the way from Amazon as we speak.
I'm beginning to think I may actually use some of these, to me, elaborate apps. I mean, I really don't do a lot of social media, but more methods for composing and posting metatext about my favorite books--I'm beginning to hear the siren call of the dark side.
Oh, and have you tried a Pop Socket? Round diddleywhack which (non-destructively) self-attaches to back of phone/case and provides a pop-out post. I thread the post between two fingers and it holds the phone without me having to grip at all, which is nice on the arthritic fingers.
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Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-07 10:31 pm (UTC)Btw, the Hadley School for the Blind has a pile of videos, also available in downloadable mp3 and transcription formats, of how to use iPhone and iPad, in both low-vision and blind options.
I've also been getting more familiar
with my new Kindle.
My brain feels very full.
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-07 11:41 pm (UTC)One of the advantages of Amazon's monomania is that your Kindle device and any Kindle app (iPhone,PC, Android) all sync to Amazon's own cloud. Actually, I think each ebook vendor's proprietary reader syncs to their own clouds. Right now, it seems that Kindle and KyBook 3 offer the most ways to interact with text. I always want to highlight text and attach a note to it, then export the quote & commentary as markdown to a text editor--I can do that in KyBook and Instapaper, but not Kindle. KyBook 3 requires me to de-DRM books before I can view them; don't know how it would handle a Bookshare file.
Just in case, you know about the AppleVis fora, right?
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 12:05 am (UTC)https://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision/
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 11:57 am (UTC)Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 04:18 pm (UTC)Frankly my brain is too watery to create Shortcuts, and there are script-happy communities that create them. Theoretically, Shortcuts would mean you could select something then say "Siri, clip that to my non-fiction file" and the text would be appended there.
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 05:25 pm (UTC)Is there a way to get that back? perhaps a draft version through Dreamwidth?
Did I mention that, by the time I could order my iPhone, all that was left was "rose gold," and yes, that means pink.
A new cover is on the way from Amazon as we speak.
I'm beginning to think I may actually use some of these, to me, elaborate apps. I mean, I really don't do a lot of social media, but more methods for composing and posting metatext about my favorite books--I'm beginning to hear the siren call of the dark side.
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 06:08 pm (UTC)Anything longer than two sentences I write in an external editor and then paste into the DW form.
I have seen rose gold, and it's really not pink pink. The phone is a much subtler color, with less chroma.
Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 06:10 pm (UTC)Re: What's your goal?
Date: 2019-05-08 07:21 pm (UTC)