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

[Loy]

You need to fill out the application on the site and if you have done this call your local library and see why you have not received your user name and password. After you receive this then you can download books. You must unzip the book into a folder on your hard drive and then copy it to a cartridge. Or you can copy to a USB pin drive to attach to the USB port on the player. IS the cartridge you received have a book on it or is it a blank cartridge for copying books too? Cartridges will be available for purchase soon.
----- 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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