[DTB-Talk] Fwd: ADV: NLS BARD Support: Accessing Braille Books and Magazines on BARD

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sat Oct 6 05:38:13 UTC 2018 

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>Braille Books and Magazines on BARD
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>Dear List Members,
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>Many of you have joined us in the five years 
>since we wrote anything about braille on BARD, 
>so we figured it might be a good time to revisit 
>and refresh what we said back then.
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>Searching for Braille Materials on BARD
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>If your user profile is set to display both 
>audio and braille titles (the default), you will 
>find links to both audio and braille titles on 
>every page of BARD search results. These links 
>are always at heading 1, so you can easily find 
>the book format you want. Audiobooks will be 
>displayed first. However, near the top of the 
>page, just above the list of audio titles, you 
>will find a “Go to Braille” link which will let 
>you jump over all of the audio titles and get right to the braille titles.
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>Occasionally audiobook users will accidentally 
>downloaded braille books instead of audio and 
>find that the book will not play in the NLS 
>digital talking-book machine DTBM). To avoid 
>this mistake, check the book number prefix 
>before downloading. All narrated audiobooks have 
>the letters DB (which stand for Digital Book) 
>before the book number. All braille materials 
>have BR (for braille) preceding the number. 
>There may be an additional letter after the DB 
>or BR denoting that the book is part of a special collection.
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>If you don’t have any interest in seeing audio 
>titles, you can set your profile so that only 
>braille titles are displayed. Here’s how:
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>After logging into BARD, press Enter on the 
>“Update Account Settings” link, located about 
>two-thirds of the way down the BARD main page 
>under the heading Additional Links.
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>Find the Display Results combo box. This is the 
>second form field on the Update Account Settings 
>screen, and it's set to “Both” by default.
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>Press Alt-Down Arrow to open the combo box, 
>arrow down to “Braille Only,” and press Enter.
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>Tab to the “Update” button, and press Enter.
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>Downloading and Reading Braille Materials
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>Braille books and magazines are in zip files. 
>Each zip file contains all the volumes of that 
>title. So to read a braille book or magazine, 
>download the title you want, unzip it to a 
>folder, open the volume you want, and start 
>reading. If you want to read your book on a 
>device with a braille display such as a 
>notetaker, copy the unzipped folder and move it 
>to your notetaker and use its braille reader to 
>enjoy your book. Yet another option is to use a 
>notetaker that can log directly onto BARD. 
>Download the braille title you want, and open 
>the book or magazine into the default braille reader.
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>On mobile devices that run iOS, you can use BARD 
>Mobile to read braille books and magazines using 
>a Bluetooth braille display. BARD Mobile for 
>Android does not support braille. As with 
>audiobooks, BARD Mobile unzips your braille 
>files automatically, so you don't need to worry 
>about doing this. Even though you may be reading 
>6-dot braille from BARD, you should set your 
>braille display to 8-dot braille. Also, 
>single-letter QuickNav should be turned off so 
>you can use the BARD Mobile navigation commands. 
>If it isn’t, you can turn it off by typing dot 7 
>with the Q-chord command. For more information 
>about reading braille on BARD Mobile, please see 
>Chapter 7 of the BARD Mobile User’s Guide, 
>located on your BARD Mobile bookshelf under the 
>Help category. If you’d like to read it in 
>braille, but don’t have any prior experience 
>with reading braille in BARD Mobile, you might 
>want to start out accessing the guide on the 
>web: 
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>Alternatively, you can access the How to Read a 
>Braille Book instructions on YouTube: 
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>Braille books and magazines are the only 
>materials on BARD that you can read directly 
>with your computer, provided you have a 
>refreshable braille display attached. Each 
>braille file is a text file that uses various 
>symbols and punctuation marks to produce braille characters.
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>In order to access braille books and magazines, 
>a device must have a braille display. Please 
>note that the DTBM does not support a braille 
>display and, therefore, cannot be used to read braille books and magazines.
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>Even if you don’t have a braille display, you 
>can make use of braille books and magazines on 
>BARD. Each braille file is the electronic 
>counterpart to a hard copy braille volume. If 
>you have access to a braille embosser, you can braille your own personal copy.
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>We hope this is enough to get you started. Of 
>course, if you have questions, please don’t 
>hesitate to email us at this address:
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><mailto:NLSDownload at loc.gov>NLSDownload at loc.gov
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>Happy downloading and reading!
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>The BARD Support Team
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