[Nfbmt] Technology

Rebecca Stewart becca33 at bresnan.net
Sat Jan 11 01:27:20 UTC 2014 

Hi Jim.  Thanks for all this helpful info.  What does hth stand for?

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From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James Aldrich
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Technology

Hi again Rebecca and list,

It really depends on how you wish to manage your reading.  An SD Card is
about the size of a postage stamp!  Your new Stream should have a 4 gig SD
card inserted already. This is at the top end of the stream. The SD card
holder is a spring loaded slot where the SD card inserts.  To remove it,
find the end of the card at the top end of your machine.  
Gently push in on the card and it will slide out of the Stream.  You will
feel the spring action.  To put it in again, be sure it is positioned
properly and slide it in till you feel a resistance or a stop.  Press
against this stop and you will feel the spring action.  
Gently push in till the card snaps into place.  Any SD card can be labeled
so you know which one you have certain books on.

   There are a number of ways to place books on an SD card.  Your Stream
comes with what I call a stub cord.  The small end of this cable plugs into
your Victor Stream.  The other end can be used to plug in your thumb drive,
and an NLS cartridge. The Stream has a nifty procedure to copy books from
that thumb drive or cartridge onto the SD card.  The longer cable is used to
charge the stream as well as plug into a PC.  one can connect the Stream
with the longer cable to a PC and send books to the Stream. Another program
for your PC called Humanware Companion can unzip your books and send them to
the proper folder on the SD card in the Stream. I believe you could get a
good 40 books on the card which comes with the Victor Stream.  I haven't
used cards higher than 8 gigs and I've had as many as 80 books on a card. 
One can locate their downloads list on the bard site and see what was
already downloaded in the past.  You could download a book you read before
once again and you wouldn't need to keep books on your Stream if you didn't
wish to do so.  I think I'm using 4 or 5 SD cards for books presently.

HTH

Jim


Original message:
> Hi Jim.  Thanks for the tidbit about the key from the library for 
> loading bard books into the stream.  Calling my reader advisor at the 
> library this week is on the top of my list.  Is it hard to load books 
> into the sd cards one needs for the victor?  I haven't even looked at 
> the sd card so I don't know what one looks like.  I assume there is a 
> limit to how much an sd card can hold.  Is it cumbersome when one 
> winds up with several different sd cards to manage?  That is one of my
concerns.
> Becca

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> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James 
> Aldrich
> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] Technology

> Hi Joy,

> Amen to all of what you said!

> I think I have most of the major players and I think the new Victor 
> Stream is a very impressive cheeseburger, oh sorry!  It is a very 
> impressive player!  If one wishes to read NLS books though, one must 
> get a user key from NLS first otherwise the NLS or Bard books won't 
> play. Once that little file installs in the player, NLS Books play 
> nicely as they should! I didn't want to overlook this point!

> If Rebecca can master the Victor Streamn and the IPhone, she'll have 
> allot of capability at her disposal!

> If anyone  thinks it might be helpful, I can give you my observations 
> on the players i have.

> Jim


> Original message:
>> Hey Becca,

>> Chill, baby, chill!  LOL

>> You want to get out there and get acquainted with and taste and buy 
>> all the cheeseburgers in the universe. Everybody has one, every 
>> company makes one a little differently.  Some try to target a 
>> specific audience; others make something more mainstream that will 
>> work with few or no modifications right out of the box.  If you want 
>> a cheeseburger, you just need to find the one you like and go for it.
>> Buying one of all the cheeseburgers in the world is something you can 
>> never do.  The best way to get to know about technology or 
>> cheeseburgers is to talk to friends, have them explain or demonstrate 
>> their technology to you, see what they have and what they like or 
>> don't like about it, and why they picked one over another.  This is 
>> fun to do at state conventions if there is time.  Also, at national 
>> convention, there is always a room set aside with things set up so 
>> you can see what is available and have it demonstrated and see what 
>> you like and maybe buy it or put it on a Christmas list or something.
>> This all takes time.  Some people are better teachers than others.
>> You'll get to see a lot of cool stuff at the CCB too, so don't just 
>> go for the first cheeseburger someone tells you about.  You might 
>> decide you
> like another kind better no matter what I or anyone else might say.

>> Jim and Dar are good contacts for learning about technology;  Jim is 
>> a gadget collector from way back.  We all have little gadgets that we 
>> use in our everyday lives, either for living or recreation.  A lot of 
>> this boils down to what you have been introduced to first, what you 
>> are familiar with, and personal preference.  If you hear about all 
>> this stuff coming at you from all sides, you may get overwhelmed and 
>> feel like you are really missing out on something important.  Give 
>> yourself time to become more familiar with what is out there, who 
>> makes what, what is competing with what, and what some of the 
>> differences in technology are.  You may find you like something 
>> fairly simple to use rather than something more complicated that 
>> maybe does more
> stuff that you don't need.

>> If I am correct, the Plex talk is something like a Victor Reader Stream.
>> It's just another company's version of it.  It basically does the 
>> same
>> thing: read books and store audio files.  There are several things 
>> out there in the market place that you can use for storing and 
>> retrieving
> audio files.
>> It's like a personal data assistant or mp3 player for the blind.

>> I get a kick out of you trying to learn everything at once, like a 
>> kid in a candy store.  Chill out and enjoy yourself.  You'll get 
>> familiar enough with the technology that's out there for us that 
>> you'll be able to make wise decisions about what and what not to buy.

>> Hope you're having fun in Minnesota.  Joy


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