[gui-talk] magazines on NLS BARD site

[Joel Deutsch]

Albert,

I took your advice and looked on the BARD site for consumer Reports and 
Smart Computing. I'm downloading Smart Computing at this moment (which may 
take half a day, as my download speed has already dropped from 40-something 
into the 20s, and will probably keep dropping if prior experience is any 
guide). Good start, you may say.

But then I'm not a Stream user or whatever. All I've got is the NLS digital 
player, and I'm in the middle of listening to a novel (the Barbara 
Kingsolver one we were talking about) and of course that's on an otherwise 
BARD-free thumb drive plugged into the side of my player.

Now, if I feel like taking a listen to this magazine issue when it's finally 
on my hard drive in three hours, I have no option but to somehow move the 
novel off my thumb drive and replace it with the magazine, or else the 
digital player will get confused. That's a firmware issue they're very vague 
about an ETA for resolution.

And no, I don't have yet another available thumnb drive to donate to the 
cause. Well, maybe when I finish with the magazine, taking notes if I must 
as I go along and there are brand names or models of items I want to 
remember, I can just delete or transsfer its files (many of them, with this 
BARD thing) and copy the novel's files back onto the thumb drive, then use 
the navigation keys to come as close as possible to where I left off 
reading.

what a drag.

But does this sound logical? I really want to do a little bit of reading 
about current computers from a general rather than blind point of view, and 
only then check around to see how Jaws-friendly this or that product might 
be. But first I need to understaend what's been happening lately with 
notebooks in a more general sense, as I know they've gone through some 
changes, mostly for the better, although I'm sure there are negatives to be 
aware of.
What fun.