[gui-talk] the BARD shufffle- Maybe I'm not so dumb, after all

[Gerald Levy]

Joel,

Why don't you just buy another thumb ddrive or two to download your 
magazines?  You can pick up a 4gb model for under ten bucks and an 8gb model 
for about 15 bucks at newegg.com.  Then you wouldn't have to perform your 
self-improvised shuffle.

Gerald
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] the BARD shufffle- Maybe I'm not so dumb, after all


>I figured out a method (refer to my earlier post):
>
> I of course downloaded Smart computing to a folder where I wanted it and
> unzipped it. But then of course I had to put it onto that thumb drive I
> stick into the NLS digital Player, and I had to clear that thumb drive of 
> a
> BARD-downloaded novel I'm in the middle of reading. Because the software 
> of
> the player can't deal with anything more complicated. Like having two 
> books
> in two folders on that thumb drive.
>
> So herein created a second folder for the novel I'm listening to and moved
> the files from my thumb drive into that folder. I kept the original
> downloaded stuff, too, just in case, but in another subfolder under the
> author's name. My hope is that when the time comes, if I copy the new 
> stuff
> onto the thumb drive again, the player will be able to remember where I 
> left
> off, rather than my having to navigate to that point.
>
> And then of course I unzipped and copied the Smart Computing  files  onto
> the thumb drive, and of course it's playing fine on the player.
>
> Now I won't find out until later whether my updated cluster of files for
> that novel, if I copy them to the thumb drive, will clue in the player's
> firmware as to where I left off listening, but everything is backed up, as
> we say, so it's a worthy experiment.
>
> Ah, the gymnastics. They really should have made that download/player deal 
> a
> little more sophisticated and flexible, in terms of programming. Even just 
> a
> little. Oh, well.
>
>
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