[nabs-l] Textbooks

[Chris Nusbaum]

How do you do a search on your Stream?

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Jewel <herekittykat2 at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 17:18:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Textbooks

Here is what I do.  It may work for you:

1.  I have asked the DSS (Disability Support Services) office to 
put my
books on a flash drive that I provide, instead of a CD.  They 
like this
because they don't have to use a CD that they pay for, so it 
saves
them that little bit of money if everyone goes to this (which 
they are
planning to suggest to other students).
2.  I get my books in Word documents.
3.  I create a folder in my $dbt_text folder with the title of 
the book
as its name.
4.  I open the files and do a Save As (F12) and save the file on 
my SD
card (for my VictorReader Stream) as a .txt file.
5.  I do this for each file (Each file is one chapter) I put all 
of the
files in the folder that I created with the name of the book.
6.  When I turn on my Victor, I go to the Text bookshelf, then 
navigate
by level 1 to find the folder that is the book I want, then 
navigate
to the chapter file that I want to read.
7.  I press play and it reads the file.  This also allows me, of 
course,
to navigate the file by screen, phrase, paragraph, line, 
sentence,
word, and character, and to also do a search (say I'm looking for 
a
vocabulary word).

I know it's a lot of work but think of it this way.  You only 
have to
do it once per semester.

Oh, just a note.  Before I go through all of these steps, I check 
to
see if the book is available from Learning Ally or Bookshare.  If 
from
Learning Ally, I only put the files on my Victor that I need to 
know
spellings and such from.  If from Bookshare, I skip this process
altogether and just download the daisy book from them.

Hope that helps,
Jewel


On 11/9/11, Hope Paulos <hope.paulos at gmail.com> wrote:
 If you have a program like open book or kerzweil you can convert 
them to
 audio and then read them that way I believe.
 Hope Paulos
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Angela Dehart" <drummer_grl_91 at yahoo.com
 To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:41 PM
 Subject: [nabs-l] Textbooks


 Hello all,
 I'm hoping someone will have the answer to my questions, anyway 
here goes.

 I receive my college textbooks on CD, my DS office makes them 
with
 approval from the book publishers.  I can read theses CDs on my 
computer
 with windows eyes but I would also like to be able to use my 
textbooks on
 my iPad and victor reader stream as well.  Does anyone know how 
I would go
 about transferring the files from the CDs to each of these 
devices or if
 it can even be done?

 Thanks in advance,
 Angela Dehart
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