The Megan Files DAISY version

DAISY is a book format for blind or dyslexic readers that can synchronise text with audio.

While the audio plays, a screen or a Braille display can show which part of the text is now playing, and/or let you navigate to other parts via jump or search.

The Megan Files (spelled The M3GAN Files) is a fan-made novel that continues the story of the movie "M3GAN" that was produced in the pandemic and became popular with teenagers. In this fan continuation, the titular robot girl learns to stop killing and use technology for good.

The audio version of this book is computer generated, but care was taken to assign different voices to the characters and to correct the most obvious pronunciation glitches, so hopefully it's more interesting than a simple screen-reader reading. The DAISY text is synchronised by sentence, except in the song chapter which is synchronised by word; navigation is by part and chapter or page number from the typeset PDF.

The DAISY version of the book is a 300 megabyte ZIP file. To play it properly, you will need a DAISY reader. The instructions for getting this DAISY book into your reader will depend on your reader. Most DAISY readers are optimised for playing books from libraries for the blind that do not typically stock fan-made works, so it may be necessary to do a little extra work to "side load" this file onto your reader.

How to load a ZIP file into your DAISY reader

EDRLab Thorium Reader

Choose from three ways:

find a plus (+) button at the top right of the screen, click it and navigate to the zip file, or
run Thorium from the command line and give the zip file's name as an argument, or
instead of downloading the file yourself, go to Thorium's Catalogs screen, choose Add OPDS feed, set the "Name" to anything you like and "Link" to https://spqrz.gitlab.io/opds.xml and then import the book from that feed before returning to the My Books tab. (Thorium 2.4 has the following limitations when importing DAISY instead of EPUB from an OPDS catalogue: the message "no accessibility information available" is always shown on the catalogue entry, and the cover image is shown on the catalogue but not in the My Books screen.)

Dolphin Easy Reader

On the mobile app, press the SD card icon at top right to import the zip file. On the Windows version, you first have to extract the zip file yourself, then in Easy Reader go to File / Import Book (also available via the icon that looks like a folder opening, or press Control and O), navigate to the extracted folder, and you will be prompted to select the OPF file.

JAWS FS Reader

You first have to extract the zip file yourself, then in FS Reader press Control O or use the File menu or icon to open, navigate to the extracted folder, and you will be prompted to select the OPF file.

US Libraries NLS Player

Extract the ZIP onto a blank USB stick of capacity 4 GB or less, and put this into the player device (it doesn't matter if your USB stick is not the physical size of a library cartridge).

Victor Reader Stream

Extract the ZIP onto a blank USB stick. Alternatively, you can put it on an SD card, but if you do, you must extract it into a sub-folder of a folder called $VRDTB for all the navigation options to be available.

Victor Reader Stratus4 and other CD-based DAISY players

Extract the ZIP onto a blank recordable CD, but, very importantly, do not create a folder on the CD. If you are using Windows to extract the ZIP to a CD, Windows might create a folder by default: do not allow this to happen, but make sure all the files inside the ZIP are recorded to the top level of the recordable CD, otherwise not all navigation options will be available when you load the CD into the Stratus.

Link to the book

Please download the DAISY version only if you have a DAISY reader to read it. Here is the 300-megabyte Daisy ZIP.

If you just want the normal version of the book, you are welcome to read it on Archive Of Our Own, or if you can't access that try Wattpad or Royal Road.