[nfb-talk] Bard

[Michael D. Barber]

The Milestone 212 and 312 also play the digital talking books from NLS.  I
don't know if that's the one you were thinking of.

Michael 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James Aldrich
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard

    Hi John,

There are a number of players which NLS recognizes.  These are mainly
portable players.  They include the Victor Reader Stream, by Humanware, Book
Sense By GW Micro, Plextalk Pocket by IRTI, Book Port Plus by APH.  The only
notetakers which play NLS books are the Icon by Level Star and the Braille
Plus by APH.  Those two machines are basically the same.  There is one other
player but can't recall the name of it at this time.

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard


> 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>
> To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard
>
>
>>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
>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>> 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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