[Dtb-talk] new to the list and DTB's

[Hyde, David W. (ESC)]

First, welcome to the list. NLS will be doing away with cassettes, and they will also be converting some of the older titles to digital form. You still have a couple of years yet though.

The player from NLS is a good one. It will play their books, and RFB&D's. It will not play books from Bookshare, or others that require text to speech. For those, you will need a different player. Opinions differ on which is best. You can download the digital books from NLS yourself, (your regional can help you set up an account) and store them on a thumb drive, or you can get them directly from NLS on a cartridge. You can, if you buy an NLS cartridge, download them directly to that storage medium.

Web Braille works very much the same. You will need either a braille display, or an embosser and a lot of paper to use the books. Again, you will need an account which your regional can help you set up. Then you can go to the NLS site and simply click on the books you want and download them volume by volume.

Hope this helps.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Gilmore
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:21 AM
To: dtb-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Dtb-talk] new to the list and DTB's

Good morning everybody.
 
I just found this listserv on NFB's web site yesterday and became excited about it. When it comes to digital talking books, I know as much about them as I do about who'll be in the 2010 World Series and win it (which is to say nothing.)
 
I currently receive my books from NLS in either cassette or braille; however, I noticed as I search NLS's web site for authors or books that a lot of them are digital downloads or web braille. I know that this is a DTB listerserv; however, does anyone know what web braille books from NLS is and how to access them?
 
As far as DTB's, my question is the same thing. I tried to investigate how to receive them from NLS; but, one needs a player and there's seven listed. I also noticed that RFB&D switched all of their stuff to digital stuff. So, what's the best DTB player (the NLS one, etc.?) How does one get digital books from NLS? Downloading? Ordering?
 
I hope to make the switch in the near future because I'm afraid that NLS will start to offer more DTB's and junk the cassettes very soon. I'm especially worried about the older books only on cassette that aren't on DTB and if they'll conver them or what.
 
Sorry for all this rambling! Thanks for all your help and for reading this!
 
Mike


      
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