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

[Lynn Evans]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hyde, David W. (ESC)" <david.hyde at wcbvi.k12.wi.us>
To: "'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] new to the list and DTB's


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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