[gui-talk] free daisy player

Thu Aug 13 11:31:17 UTC 2009

David
I sure hope your ccrystal ball is right.

Gerald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player

> 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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