[Pibe-division] BookShare Access on Braille Notes

[April Ogden]

For your information
Dear Victor Reader Stream Friends:

The launch of the new Bookshare.org site has prevented playback of the DAISY
version of Bookshare books on the Stream. In preparing the new site
Bookshare needed to reprocess their books to accomodate new external book
sources to support their expanded services. This reprocessing caused a
problem with the DAISY version of their books which they have now corrected.
If you re-download your book from Bookshare.org it should now play on your
Stream.

Also, with the new zip format for the Bookshare.org book many of you have
noticed some new files that are present in the DAISY version of the book.
These include files ending in .css, xsl, and DTD. You have asked if these
files are required by the Stream. The answer is no but they require such a
small amount of space that you do not need to remove them from your SD card.
It is ok to unzip all the files of the Bookshare.org DAISY zip file into a
sub-folder of $VRDTB. These new files will not affect the Stream.


Thank you,
The HumanWare Team


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-----Original Message-----
From: pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:pibe-division-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Andy & Sally Thomas
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:16 PM
To: Professionals in Blindness Education Division List
Subject: Re: [Pibe-division] BookShare Access on Braille Notes

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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>
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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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> We will provide further information on the next KeySoft release in the
> coming weeks.
>
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>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________
>
>
>
> Maurice Sloane
>
> HumanWare NZ
>
>
>
> Direct Dial +64 3 940 2223
>
> Mobile: +64 21 528 374
>
> Email: maurice.sloane at humanware.com
> <mailto:maurice.sloane at humanware.com>
>
> Website: www.humanware.com
>


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