[Dtb-talk] downloading books

Tue Jan 12 05:30:22 UTC 2010

Thanks. May take you up on that down the road.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books

> Mike, or anybody else,
>
> I have scripts that emulate the download manager on UNIX machines if
> you're interested.
>
> Basically, rfb&d decided to break up their books into small .zip files
> (many per book).  I believe they did this to make it easy to restart a
> failed download attempt, without needing to redownload the entire
> book.  I'm not so sure that was necessary, but there you are.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 06:33:11PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> How does one "properly" install the download manager? Frankly, I
>> just wish I could download a zipped file and handle it all myself.
>> Oh well.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Burke, Dan (DSS)"
>> <burke at mso.umt.edu>
>> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books
>>
>>
>> >If you are being asked to "Open" or "Save" the documents when you click
>> >on the download link of your RFBD download page, then you haven't
>> >properly installed the RFBD Downloader utility.  This link is at the top
>> >of the My Downloads page.
>> >
>> >When you get the thing to work properly, you won't be prompted to open
>> >or save.  It will just start to download.  But there is a trick to watch
>> >out for.
>> >
>> >RFBD's Downloader creates two different folders:
>> >
>> >* RFBD Downloads
>> >
>> >And
>> >
>> >* RFBD Media Files
>> >
>> >Despite the intuitive desire to open the RFBD Downloads folder, don't
>> >bother.  In it are lots of zipped up files that are then unzipped into
>> >the RFBD Media files.
>> >
>> >So go to the RFBD Media Files folder in My Documents to find your books.
>> >You book will be listed by its product number something like ...
>> >DLXQ777.  For the Stream, you just copy that entire file over to the
>> >$VRDBT folder and paste it.  You can change the folder name if you want,
>> >but it won't make any difference to the Stream.  And if the book has
>> >more than one CD, they will all be in the DLXQ777 folder, and will be
>> >recognized by the Stream.
>> >
>> >Good luck,
>> >
>> >Dan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Daniel J. Burke
>> >Assistant Director/Coordinator
>> >Disability Services for Students
>> >Emma B. Lommasson 154
>> >The University of Montana
>> >Missoula, MT 59812
>> >
>> >www.umt.edu/dss/
>> >
>> >406.243.2243 voice/text
>> >406.243.4424 direct line
>> >406.243.5330 fax
>> >
>> >
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> >On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
>> >Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 3:31 AM
>> >To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books
>> >Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] downloading books
>> >
>> >If you need a mac downloader contact me I wrote one a while back.
>> >
>> >Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> >Greg Kearney
>> >Association for the Blind of Western Australia
>> >
>> >On 09/01/2010, at 2:28 PM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>By default, the RFB&D Download Manager places your books in (I
>> >>think) the "RFB Media Download" folder under My Documents, each book
>> >>in its own master folder with each CD of the book (if there is more
>> >>than one) in a subfolder. All you have to do is either copy the
>> >>folder under the RFB Media Downloads to where you place other
>> >>talking books for Humanware Companion to download and just proceed
>> >>as you would with any other talking book.
>> >>
>> >>Mike
>> >>
>> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah" <sarahandfamily at live.com>
>> >>To: <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> >>Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 7:53 PM
>> >>Subject: [Dtb-talk] downloading books
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>      Hello. I need to download books from recording for the blind
>> >>>and dyslexic and copy them to my victor reader stream. Do I need to
>> >>>open the books or save them? I know they are placed in my
>> >>>documents. thank you.
>> >>>  Sarah
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