[Blindtlk] Finally got my hands on digital NLS player

[T. Joseph Carter]

So I finally got my hands on one of the NLS digital players.

I hate the thing already.

I'm not sure if the (actually a magazine) is the problem, or if it's 
the player.  I've used DAISY players before, mostly with the 
organization formerly known as RFB&D's books, and with Bookshare 
books.  But I'd never bothered to sign up for BARD, because most of 
the time what I played my books on was my computer, and you can't do 
that with NLS books.

I finally signed up because apparently an iPhone app is in the works.

So the problem is that I've got the navigation menu set to navigate 
by article.  Next.  Contents.  Okay, but I want to skip that.  Next.  
End of book.  WHAT!?  Previous.  Play.  End of book.  WHAT!?  Go back 
around to select article in the menu and start pressing previous and 
hold it.  One article.  Five articles.  Ten, then twenty, then 
thirty, beginning of book.  Okay, play.  End of book.  WHAT!?  I've 
managed to get it to jump to various places (verified with the info 
button), but only the front matter and table of contents play, and 
then not even them all of the time.

Either this magazine is completely hosed, the player is completely 
hosed, or this behaves like no other DAISY player I have ever seen, 
ever, period.  And of course, because of the stupid ridiculous DRM, I 
can't even begin to examine the thing myself to figure out where the 
problem lies.

This wasn't the way to make a good first impression.  And since my 
Victor Stream (which I had no trouble using) has grown legs, I don't 
even have a point of comparison.

Joseph