[gui-talk] free daisy player

Fri Aug 14 03:37:26 UTC 2009

Let me know when you get it.

Dave

At 06:31 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote:

>David
>I sure hope your ccrystal ball is right.
>
>Gerald
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>Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] free daisy player
>
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>>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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