[Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?

[Rob Monitor]

Hi, The only reason that they ask for you to send back your old card so that 
they can look at it and see what kind of improvements   they can make. I got 
my KNFB READER fromNFB and have gotten two updates the last one was 3.1.5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?


> Good evening everyone,
>
>    This is certainly a vast improvement to what RFB&D &D requires if you
> purchase a digital talking book player from a vendor other than them. It
> certainly beats having to send your $1000.00 Plextalk to them to have the
> copy protection key installed and having to worry if the player will make
> the round trip in one peace. At least the NFB and Kurzweil got this one
> right even if not to everyone's satisfaction. However I would welcome 
> being
> able to download the firmware upgrade directly in to the reader in the
> future. The current procedure certainly beats sending a $3000.00+ device 
> off
> to Abba-Babba and the inconvenience caused by such procedures. Keep up the
> good work Kurzweil and NFB.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?
>
>
> Hello Gary. Do you send a postage-paid envelope to facilitate returning of
> the card?
> This is better than I originally thought, but it still seems a bit
> out-of-date as far as upgrading products is concerned.
> J.J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?
>
>
>> Hi. At least for the NFB side, we do not require that you first return
>> your
>> card for an upgrade. We send you the upgrade on an SD card and ask that
>> you
>> use it to replace the SD card you had and return the one with the older
>> version of the program to us. I do not know the procedure for the folks
>> from
>> KESI but suspect it is similar.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
>> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list"
>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?
>>
>>
>> Hello. As far as I know, you must send in your firmware card and a new
>> version will be copied onto it and sent back to you.
>>
>> This, to me, is the biggest shortcoming at the moment and is one of the
>> things keeping me from purchasing the reader.
>>
>> J.J. Meddaugh
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kim Morrow" <morrowmediakc at yahoo.com>
>> To: "'Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list'"
>> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:12 PM
>> Subject: [Reader-users] how do you upgrade the Reader?
>>
>>
>>>            Provided there is a new upgrade, this newby needs to know how
>>> to
>>> go about upgrading the Reader. How is this done? Does it require sighted
>>> assistance or can I do this independent of vision? Do I obtain the
>>> upgrade
>>> via the Internet and insert it via a card reader into the system?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kimberly
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kimberly
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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