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

[Mike Freeman]

Can't quarrel with that.

Mike Freeman
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On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:37, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> Mike Freeman
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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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