[nabs-l] obtaining electronic texts

[Trevor Saunders]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:40:43PM -0700, Kirt Manwaring wrote:
> Ashley and all,
>   Personally I like downloading my books better than cds.  Mostly
> that's cause I'm unorganized and proan to lose things...so electronic
> copies are usually better for me.  But that's all personal preference
> and I guess I can see where a CD could come in handy.

I may be missing something, but imho that basically equivelent you can
copy files off the cd and given the files you can burn them to a cd ...
Now the publisher may not like this, but I've never seen a book with
effective enough drm to actually prevent this, most appear to have no
drm at all.

Trev

> 
> On 2/9/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:
> > Bookwormahb, Wrightsville prison in Arkansas, put my books into
> > Braille, when I was in school. They used to be on time, but in 2003,
> > (when I entered high school,) they were always late. I'm talking
> > about, being halfway through the semester, before I got my books.
> > RFBND's books, are always on time. I'd like to know, (speaking of
> > books,) if NLS does college-levil textbooks. Blessings, Joshua
> >
> > On 2/9/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> How do you get the texts and are they on time? Do you get them on CD? Word
> >> format?
> >> My counselor tells me the publisher doesn’t do cds, they do links only and
> >> therefore once I get it I have to download it.
> >> Groan.  CDs where you put it in the computer are much easier.
> >>
> >> Ashley
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