[Nfb-krafters-korner] Help with BARD please

[Henrietta Brewer]

This sounds like a Monday night chat to me. How can people get their knitting and crafting books if they don't know how to use the sites?
Henrietta
On Sep 3, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:

> Not sure about that.  If you down load the book directly to your computer or a thumb drive, you should be able to.  You can not use a cartrage with a computer, with out a cable.  You can download to a cartrage so you just might be able to listen with the cartrage, by using the cable.  
> I get the Braille Monitor on thumb drive and listen to it on the NLS player.  Also, I get Choice Magazine on cartrage.  
> I love the clerity and volume of the NLS player, because I have a mild hearing problem.
> Would love to learn to download NLS and book Share!
> I have had a free membership to book share, but never got to use it.  I need to renew it and pay my membborship.
> 
> Terry P.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindhands at aol.com [mailto:Blindhands at aol.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:35 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help with BARD please
> 
> I did find out you can not listen to these books on your computer.   Man, 
> now give me a break.  I really prefer not using the computer, but if I  had no other choice I would use my computer.
> 
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
> 
> In a message dated 8/29/2013 4:43:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Blindhands at aol.com writes:
> 
> Ok, I am  hanging my head in shame.  I never did go on BARD website  until today.  
> 
> Now I don't know what to do.
> 
> I called my  library for the blind and they told me I had registered and they  told me my Victor Reader was there.
> 
> I did  this several years ago  when I first got my Victor Reader  Stream.  
> Honestly, I do not  remember if I ever went on the BARD   website nor if I 
> ever put  in the id numbers for the player.
> 
> I did spend some time on the BARD  website going thru the Q & A and over on Humanware in the  support section for Victor Reader and I even called up my 
> 
> local  Blind library services and spoke to my librarian and her support   
> person.
> 
> Now here is my questions that no one could answer and they  told me to read 
> 
> all these files and I could not find the  answers.
> 
> 
> 1. How can  I find out if my player is  registered.  It doesn't  have any information like the players  that are registered to be used on my account.  
> [Audible.com has  a list for me].
> 2. Is my player that I got from NLS registered or do I have  to do something?
> 3. What do I need to do to use my NLS  player?
> 4.  I downloaded a book on my computer.  I can find  it.  [I  don't understand why I couldn't download it to the  Victor Reader stream], but do  I need to make a special folder on the  Victor Reader memory card or which folder should transfer it  into?
> 5. Do you have to select all the files that downloaded [the entire  book] and copy and paste onto the flash card in Victor Reader?
> 6.  Does anyone use a thumb drive to copy books and listen to on the NLS   
> Player?  I need to find the thumb drive and they told me it should  not be any larger then 8 gigs or was it megs?
> Joyce   Kane
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