Bookshare Product Ideas
Welcome to the Bookshare Product Ideas Forum! This is a new area 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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96 votesstarted ·
AdminShajey Rumi
(Senior Product Manager, Bookshare)
responded
We are currently working on a web based reader. This reader will allow you to will allow you to read Bookshare books in your browser.
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I choose computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Kindle and other readers!
By having lots of platforms to chose from, and something like Kindle's whispersync so we can change devices and be in the same place. And to have bookmarks and notes available everywhere would be a dream come true! It's so frustrating having tools that almost work well in the classroom, at home, outside, in the car......sigh.
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Make less mistakes in books that are BRF file
Bookshare does have a great selection of books but does not look carefully evough at the mistakes made in the braille format of the books. Mistakes include mispelling and misuse of contractions. Not being able to tell what some words are and other things.
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Make books downloadable in ePub format.
Making books available in ePub formate would make syncing with eReaders much quicker and better.
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Make illustrations viewable.
In many childen's books, illustrations are extremely important to the story. The books don't make sense unless you see the pictures.
64 votesstarted ·
AdminShajey Rumi
(Senior Product Manager, Bookshare)
responded
We provide images in our books, but only in those that the source provider supplies them.
Scanned books today do not maintain the images though we are evaluating the ability to do so.
We are also working on making the descriptions of those images available. -
48 votes
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connect bookshare with other book sites like Project Gutenberg and Open Library
Add to Bookshare's library with the help of accessible on-line project's like Project Gutenberg and the Open Library.
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43 votes
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Include visuals in textbooks including graphs, maps and pictures.
Some visuals are importent to the meaning of the text.
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Add more magazines on the site
(NFB members party courtesy of Allison Hilliker)
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Create One-Stop Search Tool for Volunteers
When deciding whether or not to scan a book volunteers should be able to key in the title, author name and do One search to pull up info on whether it is in the collection, on the books being scanned list, on the checkout list, in process, with one of our outsourcers, or being handled by a publishing partner. Lack of this tool is resulting in duplicated efforts.
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Create software that will combine the text from Bookshare with the audio from Learning Ally
I prefer the natural voices of Learning Ally, and like to follow along in books as I listen to them. it would be great to have a software program or portable device that will allow me to listen to the audio of a book from Learning Ally with the text from bookshare.
29 votesunder review ·
AdminGinny Grant
(Product Manager, Literacy Products, Bookshare)
responded
That is an interesting idea, for which we would have to look at the legal aspects as well as the technical challenges of synchronizing their files with ours… We will keep an eye and ear on the possibility in the future.
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Allow digital signatures on Proof of Disability (POD)
From NFB member party via Allison Hilliker
The ability to digitally/electronically sign our proof of disability form.
This suggestion came from an AT trainer. Folks with print disabilities can't access our print form and therefore can't sign up their students/clients independently.29 votes -
27 votes
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Please add a way to bookmark favorite books
I want to be able to identify titles that I want to read later. Kind of like a wish list.
21 votesplanned ·
AdminGinny Grant
(Product Manager, Literacy Products, Bookshare)
responded
We are doing design work around these ideas, so keep ’em coming! Thanks!
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Allow filtering of childrens' titles
(NFB members party via Allison Hilliker)
Ability to set individual account preferences to filter out the children's books on the New Books page17 votes -
14 votes
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improve the book search tools
When doing a book title search, I will get matches that do not contain any of the search terms I entered. This makes finding a book much harder.
13 votes