[Dtb-talk] downloading books from RFBandD

[Lynn Evans]

Hello Sarah and others that want to back me up on this one:


Sense I haven't advanced to the RFB&D download service as of yet I will use 
NLS BARD service as my example.

How long does it take to download a book? Well that all depends on quite a 
few factors such as; your download speed cable, DSL or heaven forbid dial up 
on a 56 k modem.  Let us hope you are using a cable or DSL service. NLS 
strongly recommends cable or DSL. If you use a dial up I would think we 
would be talking about hours of download time here. It would be quicker than 
getting them from regional library but not much. Wink.

Another factor is the size of the book. We are talking about megabytes here. 
Small magazines may be 57 megabytes books can be in the hundreds of 
megabytes.  I am happy with my Comcast cable service if I get 329 kilobytes 
per second.

If I download a magazine with a listening time of say three hours it may 
take 5 minutes to download the files.

A book say 11 to 15 hours of listening time would take maybe no more than 6 
to 8 minutes to download.

I download the books to my hard drive. They can go into my download folder 
or I did put them on my desktop at one time because they were easier for me 
to get to for unzipping at the time. It is your choice. Where ever you 
decide to put the little darlings, you can unzip the files to the flash 
card.

There is no download manager used when using the BARD site like with the 
RFB&D site.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah" <sarahandfamily at live.com>
To: <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:10 PM
Subject: [Dtb-talk] downloading books from RFBandD


>        Hello. I use the victor reader stream to play books from recording 
> for the blind and dyslexic. approximately how long does it take to 
> download a book? where are the zipped  files placed? Thank you.
>    Sarah
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