[nabs-l] Frustrated with Bookshare!

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Mike and everyone,

    We each have folders to which we save our downloaded Bookshare books. 
Beneath these root folders we create folders for each author and save the 
books by that author in to the author's folder. Whenever we download a 
Bookshare Book we save a copy of the .xml file back to the author's folder 
and rename it to have a .html extension. We then copy or move the .html file 
in to the folder of the book we wish to read. This comes in handy whenever 
you wish to read books containing computer or other types of code of 
interest. We've gotten the best results with Firefox. Hope this helps.

 Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Frustrated with Bookshare!


I suspect that perhaps the gentleman doesn't know which file to look at. My
advice would be to look at the .XML file. However, depending upon how it's
written, Internet Explorer reads .XML files well ... or not-so-well. But I'd
bet the Amis public-domain DAISY player would also work well.

Mike Freeman


-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Danielle Sykora
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 12:47 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Frustrated with Bookshare!

I have used bookshare books with jaws 10 and internet explorer before and
didn't have any problems. Maybe its the file type you downloaded it as? I
used Daisy Text.

On 3/3/13, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Why not get the .BRF version of the book? Or using your DAISY player
> of choice -- Stream, BookSense, Book Port Plus, Plextalk Pocket or the
> like or, if you don't own one of these (and it's hard to imagine
> anyone under forty
> *not* owning one), why not try FSReader, Amis or one of the other
> computer-based Daisy players out there? Be a bit imaginative, my friend.
> Life isn't for the faint-of-heart!
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joshua
> Lester
> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 6:25 AM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Frustrated with Bookshare!
>
> I've contacted the support staff, and they won't get back with me!
> Here's the problem.
> I renewed my membership, and downloaded a book that I needed for class.
> The problem is, that I can't use the reading software with Internet
> Explorer!
> Their software only works with Google Chrome, which Jaws 10.0 won't
> work with!
> Good grief!
> What's going on?
> BTW, I can't afford to upgrade Jaws.
> Thanks, Joshua
>
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