On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
On 02/28/2011 08:23 PM, a@aboq.org wrote:
Then tell those `Android users´ you heard moaning that Aldiko is every bit as good as Stanza if not better:
- Aldiko is actively maintained while Amazon has put Stanza into cryogenic freeze.
- You can read DRMed epubs on Aldiko, you cannot on Stanza.
- You can turn pages with the volume keys, which you cannot with Stanza.
Then there's the open source fbreader that is not quite as good as Stanza yet, but comes close. This one is also very aggressively maintained. In a few months it will be way ahead of the unmaintained Stanza.
But, the iphone works out of the box for blind/visually impaired users, because of the built-in screen reader voiceover (the same one that is built into osx, which means once you purchase the device, no additional cost is necessary for blind/visually impaired folks to begin using their computer/device. Android and your wonderful reading app for it cannot make this claim. As far as I know (and I'd certainly love for someone to point me somewhere that disproves this) there are no screen access programs for android, and therefore, your pushing of this wonderful application is useless for over 40 million americans, never mind the numbers in other countries. If Android had included a screen reader like apple did, you can bet there'd be tons of users with visual impairments reading books on their devices, but they didn't, and so that particular device is off limits as is the kendel, the palm devices, the (well, every commercially produced reading device) except for the ipad and iphone. There's the main difference between google and apple, one includes everyone, and the other one doesn't even try.