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

Sat May 16 19:06:50 UTC 2009

Hi.

The USB port is just next to the headphone jack. It is covered with a cap 
which you can pull off with your fingers. You might need to use your nails 
for this.
And yes, you can copy a digital book on to your flash disk and listen to it 
on your player. To know more about your player, just press and hold the play 
button for 4 seconds and you will enter the user guide that will be read to 
you in a human voice. Make sure you don't have any cartridge in the player 
when you want to read the user guide.

Hope that helps

Regards
TaraPrakash

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?

>I will call them Monday and make them give me my email with log-in info and
> instructions, is O can finally se this vaunted digital catalogue.
>
> I have been sent a cartridge with a book in it, to play around with .
> Actually, it was a worthy book, if you're into reading that genre. but I'm
> not, so I jus used it for practice.  I don't happen to have an extra thumb
> drive around to plug into the unit, at least not at the moment, for the
> method where you play the book by sticking the thumb drive into it. I 
> don't
> feel a USB port on the narrow, outer  (finger hole) edge of the cartridge.
> Do some of the cartridges from the library come with a USB slot, so that 
> you
> can download to a folder, then plug in a short USB connector and transfer
> the file to the cartridge, and play the book with your mp3 player or thumb
> drive sticking out ?
>
> thanks.
> wsuboook . But how do I ascI could add to it and slip it into the player?
>
> ''/Think.
> ,.prcacti9
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?
>
>
> 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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