[Dtb-talk] A BookShare Book and DAISY Players

[Mike Freeman]

Thanks. May have downloaded images. 

Mike Freeman
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On Sep 11, 2011, at 18:30, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> Tried it and it works fine.  Navigation by several heading levels
> successful (there are five heading levels).  Page navigation failed,
> though it appears as an available option.
> 
> HTH
> Dan
> 
> On 9/11/11, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike,
>> 
>> I'll download it and see.  You didn't by chance download a version
>> with images, did you?
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> On 9/11/11, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is anyone on this list using a Book Port Plus and has a BookShare
>>> membership? I'd be curious as to whether the BP+ can handle the following
>>> BookShare book in DAISY format: Windows Power Shell Cookbook by Lee Homes.
>>> I
>>> haven't tried this with Amis or FSReader on a PC but Internet Explorer on
>>> the PC almost chokes on the XML file due to its complexity. Both the
>>> BookSense and BrailleSense Plus are brought to their knees with this book
>>> due to running out of memory. The Victor Reader Stream, on the other
>>> hand,
>>> handles the book although it takes a glacial age to process before
>>> beginning
>>> reading. I'm curious as to what happens when one tries to read this book
>>> with the Book Port Plus.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I suspect that the reason the HIMS products can't handle the book is to
>>> the
>>> relative primitiveness of memory allocation and paging under Windows CE.
>>> The
>>> Stream, by contrast, runs a flavor of LINUX so I surmise can handle the
>>> virtual memory required to deal with the complexity of this book.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> T I A.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mike Freeman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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