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

Sat May 16 19:53:59 UTC 2009

Hi, Joel.  By your description (using the Play button to get into the audio
user guide) you must be using a Standard model player, which does not have
keys for moving among sections, setting bookmarks, etc.  As you found, you
can do a lot with rewind and fast forward, but I wouldn't be surprised if
you asked your library for the advanced model later.

You will probably need to obtain one or more USB thumb drives to store books
you download.  They plug into the side of the player.  Books come as a ZIP
file, and you place the contents of that ZIP file in the root directory of
the drive.  This is different from what people are accustomed to doing with
the Victor Stream and other players.

I hope you can get your BARD subscription worked out quickly, but I wouldn't
count on a single day.  The Braille Institute must contact NLS and verify
that you are using the program (which they probably have done).  Up to now,
NLS sends you the message with your username (which is your e-mail address,
case sensitive) and a temporary, one-time password which you are asked to
change when you log on.  These messages do occassionally get caught in spam
filters.  This system will change to a more localized system in the next
several weeks as the pre-launch test continues.  If you haven't done so
already, you should write a message to nlsdownload at loc.gov describing what
you have done so far.  We are all learning where this new system works and
where it doesn't.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 1:59 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Recieved my NLS digital reading device: Now whaht?
> 
> 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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