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The 15-state Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Consortium is working to improve academic outcomes for

approximately 1.3 million K-12 students with print disabilities within the member States through the timely acquisition and delivery of high-quality educational materials in accessible

formats (audio, Braille, eText, large print).

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The development of this project by the AIM Consortium at the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and the Michigan Department of Education IDEA Mandated

Activities Project Michigan’s Integrated Technology Supports was funded by Grant # H327S070003 from the

U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The contents of this project are not exhaustive and inclusion does not imply endorsement by

the U.S. Department of Education, the Michigan Department of Education, Michigan’s Integrated

Technology Supports, or the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Book Wizard Reader version 1.4

Book Wizard Reader opens and reads DAISY books, including those from Bookshare.org

and Recordings for Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D)

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1. Is used to Open your DAISY books.

2. Is used to Organize your DAISY books

The Book Shelf opens automatically when you start Book Wizard Reader.

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Ways to open Book Shelf

1. Start or restart the Book Wizard program.

2. In the File menu, choose Open Book

3. In the toolbar, use the Open Book tool

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Inside the Book ShelfSearch Paths window:

(Paths to books on your computer)

Books window:

(Your current list of books)

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Find and add books to the Book shelfTo find books, use the Browse button

Open the “Look In” window

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Browse to books:

Browse to the folder containing the book(s).

Highlight the book, then click OPEN.

New book added:

The path you followed to find the new book now appears in the “Search Paths:” window

The title of the DAISY book you found will appear in the “Books:” window

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To Open a book from Book Shelf… HIGHLIGHT the title in the

Books window

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When the book opens….

Audio View Window shows audio recording info

Contents View Window

Text View Window shows book

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DAISY book types:1. Full audio with title only

2. Full audio with Navigation center

3. Full audio with Navigation center and some text – usually only index, glossary.

4. Full audio and full text, synchronized.

5. Full text and some audio

6. Full text, no audio

Recordings for Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) distributes type #2

Bookshare.org distributes type #6

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Bookshare book in Book Wizard Reader:

Bookshare DAISY books have: Contents view window

ANDText view window

But NO audio view window

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RFB&D book in Book Wizard Reader:

RFB&D DAISY books do not have text, therefore, ONLY the Contents and Audio windows are shown (no text window)

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ViewsWhen Book Wizard Reader

opens a book, it opens all the views (windows) the book offers. The available views depend upon how the book was constructed.

A DAISY book may have 1-4 of the available windows:

1.Audio

2.Braille

3.Contents

4.Text

Show or hide the view windows by clicking in the View menu

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Read a bookTo read text, click the Play

button in the toolbar. (F5 is the keyboard shortcut for Play)

To stop the reading, click the Stop button. (F4 is the keyboard shortcut for Stop)

Or…..

Press the Space bar once to Play, again to Stop.

Play Stop

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Audio menuPlay and Stop

Forward and rewind (if built into the book)

Volume Up and Down

Speed Up and Down

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Settings menu:

Self Voicing: click to put a checkmark if you want to hear menus and dialog boxes read aloud.

Choose Set Speech

Change the Voice

Change the Rate

Change the volume

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The next 6 slides show ways to navigate in the book using:

• Contents window

• arrow keys

• “Go To Page” box

• Navigation menu

• toolbar tools

• keyboard keys

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Navigate with Contents windowMost DAISY books have a

table of contents.

Branches open and close by clicking on the plus and minus boxes.

Navigate to any section of the book by clicking on the chapter or section.

Remember: each DAISY book may have different information in the Contents window.

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Navigate with arrow keys

Up arrow = move up one line in text

Left arrow = move 1 letter or character to the left

Down arrow =Move down one line in text

Right arrow = move 1 letter or character to the right

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Navigate using Go To page

To quickly and easily navigate to a specific page in the book, press the “g” key on your keyboard.

In the GoTo Page window, type the page in the box, then click the OK button:

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Navigation from the MenuIF your DAISY book is constructed with these elements,

you may be able to navigate forward or backward by Units, Chapters or pages:

Try with each book to see if this navigation is available

Prior and Next moves by Element (Unit, Chapter, Section, etc.)

Level Down/Up changes the element (from chapter to section, etc.)

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Navigation from toolbar

Remember that these features must be created when the DAISY book was made.

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Prior / Next

Level up /Level down

Prior page /Next page

Prior paragraph/Next paragraph

Navigation with keyboard keys

Page Up key – moves to next page

Page Down key – moves to previous page

F8 key – moves to next section of the book

Shift&F8 key – moves to prior section

F11 key – moves forward one sentence

F12 key – moves backward one sentence

(hold keys down to fast forward or fast rewind)

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Bookmarks menuTo set a bookmark from the

spot you are reading, press the “b” key on your keyboard.

In the Book Mark List:1.View all bookmarks2.Go to a bookmark3.Remove a bookmark

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Removing books

To completely remove a book from your computer, highlight it in the Books window, then click Delete Book

To remove a book from your book list, but keep it on your computer, , highlight the path to that book, then click Remove Path. Title will disappear from Books window.

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RFB&D AuthorizationYou must purchase a Key Authorization from

Recordings for Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) in order to read their books using Book Wizard Reader.

Once you purchase the key, Book Wizard will be authorized to open and read RFB&D books.

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