[Pibe-division] BookShare Access on Braille Notes

[Andy & Sally Thomas]

Does anyone know the web address for the old  Bookshare?  My son can't 
download books to his Braillenote or Victor Stream from the new site.

Sally Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maurice Sloane (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)" 
<Maurice.Sloane at humanware.com>
To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: [Pibe-division] BookShare Access on Braille Notes


> As you are all aware from recent posts to the BrailleNote List,
> BookShare is migrating their library to a new Web site. As part of the
> changes, they are now supporting a more general file encryption format
> for their compressed books.
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> The internal format of the books remain the same. The only difference is
> the way they zip the files for download. The new format is .bks2 or
> .zip.
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> The new BookShare site is now launched, but Bookshare's old site will
> remain up for some months until manufacturers finalize their transition.
> During the transition period Braillenote users with version 7.5 or older
> should be able to access their service as usual.  We will provide
> additional information later this week.
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> People may use the new BookShare site from their PC and unpack the files
> in the PC.  The unpacked books can then be read in the BrailleNote as
> usual.
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> Support for the new BookShare bks2 or .zip books will be included in the
> next KeySoft release. This upgrade is for mPower and PK machines.
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> Support for the new BookShare unpack will not be provided for the
> Classic machines.  As previously advised, KeySoft 7.5 was the last
> release for these units. Classic users with version 7.5 will be able to
> read any of the new BookShare books. However, the new book un-packing
> would need to be done in the PC.
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> If you are a BrailleNote user and you require assistance to access the
> old BookShare site during the transition period, we would ask that you
> direct your support requests to support at humanware.com and our US based
> technical support team will attend to your query.
>
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> We will provide further information on the next KeySoft release in the
> coming weeks.
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> Thank you.
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> Maurice Sloane
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> HumanWare NZ
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