[Dtb-talk] learning ally is there a trick to it?

[Jim Barbour]

Yeah, but it's gui based and only runs on windows.  This is probably
good for the 80%, not so much for me <grin>

Jim

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:33:46PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
> Actually, the new download manager isn't bad once one gets used to it. It will let you download to external devices such as the Stream directly if you wish.
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> On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:24, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > You have to use their download manager.  You can't download it like an NLS book.
> > 
> > At least not with the old system.  As for the new system, it looks
> > more like a web-managed sort of thing when I briefly took a look at
> > it.  I decided to go the route of the RFBD download manager since I
> > don't see myself downloading much from Learning Ally now that I'm out
> > of higher ed.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/5/12, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> >> You'll need some kind of book downloader.  The web server hands you a
> >> file that contains a list of files and their URLs.  Some software on
> >> your machine, usually the book downloader" has to take that file and
> >> download the pieces and concatenate them together.
> >> 
> >> I've written some perl to do this on Linux machines, and I suspect it
> >> would also work on Macs.  Please email me if you're interested.
> >> 
> >> Jim
> >> 
> >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:23:19PM -0800, Mike Gilmore wrote:
> >>> Hi everybody,
> >>> 
> >>> I'd like to download some stuff from Learning Ally's web site. When I go
> >>> to download something, it opens a new window and there's some book manager
> >>> program or something that needs to be downloaded. Is there ar eason why we
> >>> can't download them like we would an NLS book and then put it in the DTB
> >>> folder on the Stream? Is there a trick or shortcut that I'm missing?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> 
> >>> Mike
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