[Electronics-talk] nls bard question

Anita Ogletree anita.ogletree63 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 13:14:24 UTC 2013


Hi Tim.  So are you saying that it is possible to use a flash drive with my 
digital player?  I have two flash drives and one of those cartridges from 
Perkins I think.

How do I use Daisy books on this player?  Where can I find them?

Anita

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From: "Timothy Emmons" <temmons9 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:32 PM
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] nls bard question

> Hey, Ashley, I'm a reader adviser at the Library for the Blind here in 
> Montgomery. I'll try to help as best as I can. The players only play Daisy 
> and mp3 currently. There is no word as to if and when it will play other 
> file types yet. As far as getting the books to the thumbdrive or cartridge 
> after download, it's as simple as copying the book to the thumbdrive from 
> the pc. Find the book after the download is complete, it's going to be the 
> second occurence of the book, not the first. The first one will be the 
> zipped folder that you don't want. The second one is the unzipped folder. 
> It makes its own folder here after unzipping. Find the second time you see 
> the title, by arrowing to it, or using the first letter of the book say, 
> Db for digital book. Once you've found it, and have it highlighted don't 
> hit enter, but just make sure you're sitting on it with your arrow keys, 
> and do a control C Once you've done that go to your computer, and go to 
> Removable disk whatever your computer calls it. Hit enter, and open the 
> drive. Now, once it is open hit control V to paste the book, it will say 
> copying so and so many items, and then it will show the list view. Once 
> that is done the book is on the drive and if you pop that in your Nls 
> player you should be good to go. If that doesn't work, let me know and 
> I'll try to help more. Thanks again and talk to you soon.
> On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Ashley Bramlett wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a few questions on nls books. I am trying to use bard.
>>
>> I assume I save the zipped file to the hard drive as opposed to opening 
>> it.
>> once that is done, how  do I get it to a usb drive for playing on the vr 
>> stratus or digital nls player?
>> Do I have to create a folder for each book and then copy unzipped files 
>> into it?
>>
>> Also, how many books might fit on a 4 gb USB drive?
>> Also, what media can the digital nls player play? Is it just mp3 files 
>> and daisy files?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashley
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