[Nfbmt] Library

d m gina dmgina at samobile.net
Fri Jan 10 02:56:46 UTC 2014 

OK you do bookshare, as well as bard?
If so how did you load in bard so we can share with Jeff?

Original message:
> Dar,
>         You assume too much.  I have the new stream.
> Ted

> EDWARD C "TED" ROBBINS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of d m gina
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 1:43 PM
> To: nfbmt at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Library

> You have the first stream rite?
> I sold mine when I got the I products.
> As well as I have the booksense I bought from the program.
> I also have the Plex talk pocket.
> So you can see why I didn't want the upgraed stream.

> Original message:
>> Becca,
>>         I use the victor stream for reading nearly all my NLS books.
>> Currently I have 93 books, several newspapers, a few magazines   plus
>> several NP3 files and still have over 2.76 gig left on my 16 gig sd card.
>>         You can install books from the NLS as long as you have
>> registered your equipment with them.  Visit with the Library in Helena
>> and they can help you do this.  Thhis is quite simple, but YOU have to
>> do it plus learn how to download the books.  Itt all just takes a little
> time.

>> Ted

>> EDWARD C "TED" ROBBINS
>> , CEO MBEI, Treasurer NFB of Montana & MANAGER MAB EQUIPMENT PROGRAM
>> PHONE & FAX:  406 453 6678, CELL:  406 799 6268
>> 104 RIVERVIEW 5 E
>> GREAT FALLS  MT   59404


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca
>> Stewart
>> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 10:36 AM
>> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Library

>> 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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