[blindkid] Bookshare???

[Allison Hilliker]

Sure thing. You do an f with space bar. Meaning that you hold down dots 1, 2, 4 and the space at the same time. This is a find command. You then follow the prompts. It'll probably ask your son if he wants to search forward or back. If he is at the beginning of the file he'll press enter on forward. Then he can type in the text he is looking for. In the case of Bookshare books he'll want to search for begin content. Then he'll press enter and the display should move him to that text. To do this a second time he'll just press f with space bar again and restart the process.

I hope that makes sense. 

Best,
Allison
 


-----Original Message-----
From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly B
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:11 PM
To: Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Bookshare???

Thank you! That is helpful.

Can you tell me how to do a search for words? I don't think my son knows how to do that... He's 10 and somewhat new to the Mpower.

Thank you!

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, Allison Hilliker wrote:

>
> Hi Carolynn,
>
> Bookshare has to have that intro at the beginning of each book in 
> order to comply with US copyright law. I'm sorry if you and your son 
> are finding it frustrating though.
>
> The easiest way to skip over the beginning text is to do a search for 
> the words "begin content." You'll have to search twice because those 
> words appear once in the intro text. The second instance of begin 
> content should indicate the start of the book.
>
> I hope this was helpful.
>
> Best,
>
> Allison Hilliker
> Bookshare Collection Development Associate allisonh at bookshare.org 
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org <javascript:;>] On 
> Behalf Of Carly B
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:06 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
> Subject: [blindkid] Bookshare???
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone give us some direction in using Bookshare? We have 
> successfully downloaded books to our son's Mpower in Braille format. 
> However, these downloads come with SCADS of content before every book, 
> that my son scrolls and scrolls and scrolls through. When he puts 
> speech on, it's like we are reading some detailed contract about the 
> laws of using Bookshare, and then all of the text that you find at the 
> beginning of books, like the publication date and copyright, blah blah 
> blah. Does anyone know if there is a way to skip past all of that and go straight to the start of the book?
>
> I appreciate any helpful advice! Thanks in advance!
>
> :) Carolynn aka Brian's mom
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