[nfb-talk] Bard

[Steve Jacobson]

John,

Maybe I am misunderstanding your question, but the Victor Reader Stream, the BookSense from GW Micro, and the BookPort Plus from the American Printing 
House for the Blind can all play BARD books, and I think the Plex-Talker from IRTI can also do it.  It is unlikely that note-takers will be able to play audio NLS books 
because NLS is shying away from players that have a software component that could be compromised by someone seeking to decode books.  Of course, the 
above players all have software components, but the systems are proprietary and users don't have the ability to easily load software on these devices that could be 
used to tap into the logic associated with decoding the audio on these books.  Web Braille books which will become part of BARD can be played on Note-Takers, 
though, since it is felt that the translation to grade two braille is an effective obstacle to making such books available to the public.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:42:08 -0500, John G. Heim wrote:

>Can you buy a commercial player for the books from bard? I have 2 cassette 
>book players in addition to the one the library sent me. But I don't have 
>any way to play a book downloaded from the bard site except on the player 
>they sent me.

>I would think that the newer braille notetakers will be able to play books 
>from bard. I own a Pac Mate and it can recognize a book downloaded from bard 
>but it cannot play it.

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
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>>I really like the new digital talking book player.  I do wish it was still
>> smaller and lighter.  With all my swimming gear, lunch, back-up cane and
>> everything else I have in my gym bag; it is still too heavy.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Steve Johnson
>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:22 PM
>> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard
>>
>> John, I have not tried one myself yet, so this is good to know.  Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of John G. Heim
>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:26 PM
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>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Bard
>>
>> Man, I just got one of those new digital book players from the National
>> Library Service.  You might wonder why a computer nerd like myself took so
>> long to ask for one of those things. Well, I guess mostly the reason is 
>> that
>> I have 2 tape players that I bought myself plus the one from NLS. So now I
>> have to use the player from the NLS all of the time.
>>
>> But holy cow, is this thing nice. I downloaded a book and put it on a USB
>> thumb drive and was listening to a book amybe 3 minutes after getting
>> started. And navigation within the book is very nice.
>>
>> Your tax dollars at work.
>>
>>
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