[gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?

[Wayne Merritt]

Once you do get the ifnformation and start downloading books, you'll
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Good luck,
Wayne

On 5/16/09, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Jennifer,
>
> Thanks very much for the link, but I hope this'll amuse you: I completed the
> application form and got an error message saying that my application had
> already been processed or received or something on May 4. Well, I thought
> I'd done all this, although I couldn't have remembered how to get there, and
> reading the URL you sent me provided no clues as to where it is on the NLS
> main Web site. The link, I mean. If it's Read All About Our Digital Plan or
> something, I went there again tonight but found nothing to tell me about
> what I'm now reminded is known as the BARD system. So I don't know how I
> managed to get that far, but obviously I did.
>
> I looked in my email folders under NLS, and there's one message I've kept
> there that says my application was received April 29 and my local library
> would soon be sending me an email with instructions and my log-in info.
>
> I never received such a thing. Could it possibly have become trapped in my
> spam folder? That happens very seldom, legitimate email getting trapped.
> I'll log into my email service and check, though. Hold on.
>
> Nope. there's nothing from the NLS or the Braille Institute dated May 4 or
> any other date, for that matter. but apparently the NLS BARD site thinks I'm
> registered. That's nice. I wonder what my log-in information is. I'll have
> to call Braille Monday.
>
> Oh, well. You gotta love the mysteries, I guess.
> I'l
>
> sdending seoon librrayr apploicatuion NO
>
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jennifer Aberdeen" <freespirit328 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?
>
>
> There is a website to go to. Try this:
>
> https://nlsbard.loc.gov/cgi-bin/nlsbardprod/index.cgi
>
> There should be a link somewhere on the page for the application. I did this
> just a few weeks ago.
>
> Jen
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:53 PM
> Subject: [gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?
>
>
>> If I recall correctly, one of our fellow subscribers is on the staff of
>> the
>> NlS, so I'm asking this here.
>>
>> I've just received my NLS player and, a couple of days later, a book
>> cartridge from my local Los Angeles Braille Institute library, for maiden
>> voyage purposes, so to speak.
>>
>> I've learned to use the unit. Now the truth is that it wasn't cartridges I
>> was so looking forward to using, but the digital files I understand are
>> available for download somewhere on the NlS site. I found the USB port on
>> the side of the unit, near the headphone jack, also.
>>
>> But the recorded instructions you hear by holding down the Play button
>> explain nothing about how to find digital files online, how to download
>> them, and how to play them using this player, although I understand that
>> this can all be done.
>>
>> Where do I go in order to find such instructions, I mean pertinent to this
>> player and not something like a Victor Reader Stream? Is there a sign-up
>> procedure? I've been to the NLS site and looked through all the links, but
>> even the one labeled Read About the digital Program or whatever it says
>> has
>> nothing about this topic, nor in fact anything about how to procure files
>> to
>> play on any other device, either. I must be looking in the wrong place.
>>
>> Please, is there a way to find out about all this? Or must I simply call
>> the
>> person at Braille Institute who's responsible for this program and ask him
>> to explain it all? That would seem a little strange, considering I'd
>> expected a Web page full of instructions and maybe a sign-up form or
>> something.
>>
>> No, I don't need to sign up in a basic way for library services. I've been
>> a
>> patron, using the audiocassettes, for years. So that's where I'm starting
>> from.
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>>
>>
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