[gui-talk] free daisy player

Thu Aug 13 01:44:56 UTC 2009

Gerald, it is impossible to know how long the waiting list at your 
Library is, but I would be shocked if it takes you 3 years to get a 
machine.  I predict you should have one by January of 2010.

Dave

At 11:46 AM 8/12/2009, you wrote:

>Joel,
>
>I am already on the waiting list of my local NLS network library for 
>a new digital talking book player, but I have been told that it 
>could take up to three years before I actually receive one.  The 
>library expects to receive its firtst batch of digital players next 
>month, but because they are a branch of the New York Public Library, 
>they are notoriously slow and inefficient.  Having listened to a 
>number of podcasts about this device, I'm pretty familiar with its 
>controls and operation.  But I wouldn't put it past the Obama 
>administration to cut funding for the NLS to pay for his health care 
>plan, so I wouldn't be surprised if I don't receive one for five years.
>
>Gerald
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
>
>>Gerald,
>>
>>DTB? Does that mean Daisy Talking Book? I don't think that technology plays
>>any part at all in this program.
>>
>>Which is to say, the NLS has been running a program out of their regional
>>libraries, such as my local Braille Institute Library and others from Texas
>>to New York, handing out the new NLS digital Players to people who put
>>themselves on the list as interested, for some months now. There are basic
>>players and advanced players, with one more  row of navigation buttons,
>>which I'd have ordered if I knew they existed when I signed up.
>>
>>They are meant to be used two was. One by inserted a plastic cartridge that
>>looks like a skinny audiocassette, the other by downloading files from the
>>online thing. Library.
>>
>>Where are you, New York I think? Call your most local participating library
>>from which you get NLS books on tape and ask them what's going on, and don't
>>forget to express your interest. There's a new shipment doming to those
>>branches for distribution end of august.
>>Joel
>>
>>P.S. This is all audio files, as far as I know. Nothing to do with Daisy.
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimited at verizon.net>
>>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:39 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>
>>
>>
>>Exactly how were you able to get your hands on an NLS DTB player?  They
>>aren't even available here yet.
>>
>>Gerald
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
>>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:49 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>
>>
>>>Steve,
>>>
>>>Don't worry about that. As i said in an earlier post, I am subscribed to
>>>the
>>>BARD site for downloading files, but I play them on the NLS didgital
>>>player.
>>>See? So I was just trying to figure out what Albert was talking about. I'm
>>>starting to piece something together, to the effect that NLS digital
>>>player
>>>users have no impediment to playing the files on those devices, but the
>>>only
>>>other device that's currently known to play them is the Stream, and in
>>>order
>>>to transffer a BARD book onto the Stream and get it to play, you have to
>>>make some sort of special arrangement with the NLS under which, for $10,
>>>they sell you either a key that's good forever or make you pay that same
>>>amount every single time you download a book from the site. That may be
>>>quite a difference to not be sure of, but it's closer than I was before.
>>>Or
>>>at least I think so.
>>>
>>>read knowen
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
>>>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:49 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Joel,
>>>
>>>Thanks for your message.  Actually I'm not able to answer any of your
>>>questions about playing NLS files on the Victor Stream because I live in
>>>Australia and we're not able to have access to NLS materials here and
>>>because of that I haven't made an effort to find out how the BARD site
>>>works.  Hopefully someone else on the list will be able to help.
>>>
>>>Regards Steve.
>>>
>>>On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:42:00 -0700
>>>"Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>Okay, Steve. So you pay this fee for each and every book file you
>>>>download
>>>>from the NLS BARD site? Or you pay once in order to make your Stream
>>>>support
>>>>the BARD files? How does this work?
>>>>also, none of this has anything at all to do with the RFD etc. people?
>>>
>>>Regards Steve
>>>Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>>>MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>>>Skype:  steve1963
>>>
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