Go Read
Welcome to the Go Read User Feedback Forum! We love hearing from you about ways to improve Bookshare’s reader for the Android.
This area is available for you to suggest your ideas for Bookshare to consider as part of the product roadmap and vote on ideas that others have already submitted. We are excited to hear your thoughts!
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Support txt, rtf end html format
By Android version: Is it possible to support the formats txt, rtf, html, pdf even? I hope to implement it soon. Thank a lot!
31 votesCan you please give more information? When you say “by Android version”, do you mean Go Read, the Android O/S app? And if so, is your wish to be able to open any of these file types directly in Go Read?
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Go Read for Amazon Tablets
Is it possible to get "Go Read" app as an apk download? I have an Amazon App Tablet and I can't get it from Adroid Market or Google play.
27 votesCurrently we do not support Amazon Kindle Fire and B&N’s Nook tablet. We are currently researching ways to enable Go Read on these devices.
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Android application with both voice recognition and text to speech support, backed up with bookshare database.
A user can search a book by speaking out the name (or ISBN) and can access that book in audio format through text to speech feature of the android application.
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Automatically track book positions
I was surprised to discover that current book positions weren't automatically tracked. If I'm reading a book and wish to leave the app, I have to remember to set a bookmark first or else the position is lost. I'd rather the book's last position be tracked such that when I open it again, I appear where I left off.
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Please make it compatible with Kindle Fire
Just hoping that your app would find its way onto the amazon app store and that it would be compatible with Kindle series products
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Option to read single words, dictionary feature
My child has a learning disability. Having books read to him is great, but I also want to encourage practicing some independent reading skills. I would like for him to have the option to read silently and then when he comes to a word he doesn't know be able to select it and have just that word read to him. Also to be able to select a word and have the definition read to him to help build vocabulary and help compehension.
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Eliminate, or support disabling of, sounds
The sounds are a bit annoying, and few other Android apps make them. I'd like to ask that they either be removed, or that I can disable them if I don't want the app beeping and booping and making all sorts of noise as I navigate books.
8 votesThanks for the feedback. We have some users really like them too. We would like to hear from more users to make a change.
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Make features available on Android devices similar as those in the Read2go app.
I wish the same features such as highlighting text as it is read and being able to manipulate the size of the text would be included in the Android versions of books available through Bookshare. We have multiple types of devices in our district and would love to have the same features such as these on all of them.
6 votesWe continue to look for ways to make Go Read and our iOS apps behave similar. But currently in Android word-level highlighting is not possible. We have noted your idea for future release though.
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highlighting the word that is reading by the tts engine in stead of a whole scentence
For people with dyslexia it is also nice to see what word is actally been read by the tts engine
6 votesExcellent point, Jörgen! We have that functionality in a new reading tool that we will be releasing soon, and I will add this suggestion of having word-level highlighting as well as sentence-level to the roadmap list for GoRead (and Read2Go too!)
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Make notification bar visible when reading
It seems like the notification bar is not visible when I'm reading. As such, if I get a new email, IM, text, etc. I have to leave the app to even read it. Leaving the app usually causes my position to be lost (see another idea I've posted.) As such, reading an email/IM usually results in the following annoying sequence:
1. Press Home. Realize immediately that I've forgotten to set a bookmark.
2. Read and respond to the notification.
3. Relaunch GR.
4. Realize that my position is lost. Press "Next section" a hundred or more times to return to…4 votes -
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Allow the file to continue playing even when exiting the application. Unfortunately, only one app at a time can use any given TTS engine(at
least per my understanding) so users would have to have a different "reading engine".
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Use context menus
When I click on a book, I probably want to open it. Likewise, when I click a bookmark, it is fairly certain that I want to go to that bookmark.
Please change the menus that appear when each option is clicked, instead making them context menus available on long-press. A single click should perform the most common action--opening the item, etc.
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Make it a paid app like on the iPhone
I, like the great majority of blind individuals, am an iPhone user and I thoroughly enjoy its superior screen reading functionality that comes built-in with the phone. I feel extremely disappointed and being discriminated against by Bookshare for being charged for an app, whilst our Android-loving blind friends can use their app for free. Given that Bookshare was created with the aim of removing discrimination from the print-only world, I find it unbelievable that it would favor one phone platform against another by making one of their apps completely free whilst the other paid for. You know very well that…
3 votesAt Bookshare we prefer free and open source when it is available. In case of iOS no suitable open source solution existed when we were building Read2Go. Hence we partnered with a partner to deliver the iOS solution. In Android we were able to find an open source solution FBReader to work from. We continue to look for options and it will be hard to catch up to the features of Read2Go.
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a version of go read for windows 8, windows needs a good ebook reader with TTS option
Windows 8 also needs a good go read app for TTS, it lacks a true good ebook reader for its platform, i like calibre for its style of storing ebooks but its ebook reader does not support text to speech, the last good ebook reader on windows that supported tts was microsfts reader the lit formatand blio reader which does support tts but does not let you load your own ebooks
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Make scrolling forward/backward continue when trackball button is held
When I lose my position in my book because I had to leave the app without setting a bookmark, finding my old position is difficult. I have to tap the trackball on the "Next section" button many times. Far better would be making the control continue scrolling while the button is held.
Another option would be a seekbar that lets me set a position in the book.
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Do you use gestures or playback buttons?
In Go Read you can use gestures to navigate the book along with playback buttons. What is your experience of using gestures? What do you like or do not like about them?
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support for AZW3 format
Support for calibre AZW3 kindle format for go read
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