[Nfbmt] Library

Thu Jan 9 17:36:17 UTC 2014

Thanks Dar.  I recently bought a Victor Stream when I was in Baltimore.  I'm
having trouble learning how to use it though.  My gf and I started figuring
it out when I got home with it but we got stuck when we tried to sign up for
Book Share, which apparently is the thing one needs to use to download books
into the Victor and I haven't had a chance to get back to it.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dar
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:49 AM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Library

Hi there, 
One of the machines you might want to buy is the Victor stream. 
Or you can do this as well on your I phone. 
Then you can stay on a site as long as long as you wish. 
We do this all of the time. 
I'm learning how to down load books with niss mini. 
It takes time and patients. 
To think what I am doing now, I would have never dreamed when I was a little
girl. 
I remember getting the heavy Braille books carrying them down the drive way
from the mail box. 
That sure was exercise. 
When we take trips, we make sure we have plenty to read, or have music to
listen to as well. 
Yes you will learn allot in training. 
Wishing you the best. 

Dar 
Every Saint has a past, 
Every sinner has a future, Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:59 PM, "Rebecca Stewart" <becca33 at bresnan.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dar.  That sounds like you and Jim had a great day!  I've had a library
> card in the past but I haven't utilized the public library for almost 15
> years now because it's too difficult for me to read print anymore so I try
> to get all my books on audio and I don't think the pub library has audio
> books.  I find it easier to get audio books from the NLS library in Helena
> that I listen to and then I ship back to them.  I download a lot of books
> into this tiny little flash drive I bought so I have probably over two
dozen
> books on that flash drive right now and I haven't listened to all of them
> yet.  I love the new digital player from the library in Helena.  It is
much
> more convenient than the old style four sided cassettes used to be that I
> got from Helena when I was a kid after I went blind.  I drive my husband
> crazy sometimes, begging him to download more audio books into my
flashdrive
> for me.  He makes out good though.  I have grown fond of Louis L'amour
and
> so my husband gets to listen to his novels with me at night when we go to
> bed.  My husband has a lot of difficulty reading and so he listens to my
> audio books with me and he's so used to it that he can't sleep at night
> without an audio book playing.  I really like the portability of my
digital
> machine.  I take it with me all the time when I travel.  I am in Minnesota
> right now and I brought it here with me also.  I can listen to it with my
> headphones on long car rides or on long bus trips across country, things
> like that.  I just wish I was better at using the computer so I could
> download my own books from the NLS library sight.  I also wish I could go
on
> the NLS site and browse to see what all they have to offer.  With Randi's
> help, all I can get is his help downloading specific books that I learn
the
> name of the book and the author so he can go right to it, he doesn't want
to
> spend time reading through long lists of topics and things like that on
the
> web site so I can browse titles and subjects that are available.  I've
never
> even been on the web site by myself before. Computer skills are one of the
> many things I hope to learn at CCB if I ever go.  It's so awesome that
there
> is a place like CCB out there for blind people to learn.  I've never seen
a
> place like it before.   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dar
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:52 PM
> To: Nfb Of Montana
> Subject: [Nfbmt] Library
> 
> Hi folks, 
> Today I decided to miss mass and Jim went with me to the new library that
> opened this last Monday. 
> We wanted to take a tour where they were quite busy giving other tours. So
> they took our phone numbers and names to call us when it would be a good
> time to do this. 
> We didn't feel unhappy about this, sense they took the numbers. 
> What we did though was to get library cards. 
> This is the first time that I have ever had a public card. 
> They shared that we could take a book home if we wanted to do so. 
> We also learned that we can down load books onto our I products. 
> They helped us fill out the paper work as well as reading the numbers to
us
> from each card. 
> We will wait for a month if we don't hear from them, then we will call
> again. 
> We were wishing that we had an app that we could scan the page of the book
> and have it read to us. 
> Ted have you done this with your phone with a library book, and if so, how
> well did it read? 
> Jim thought that your phone was still a better deal at this time until
> someone improves and updates the I products. 
> We also learned that anyone across the state can get a library card. 
> Just wanted to share on behalf of our fun day. 
> I am sure Jim will share more about the day when he gets to reading the
> list. 
> 
> 
> Dar 
> Every Saint has a past, 
> Every sinner has a future, Sent from my iPad
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