[Reader-users] A Few Questions About Starting The Reader

[David Evans]

----- Original Message ----- Dear Pam,

On the top edge of the Reader, where the plug in jack for the ear phones is, 
there is a small button, about half way across.  Feel for it and press and 
hold it down and you will feel it vibrate.  The screen will light up and in 
a few seconds you will hear the start up music and then an announcement that 
tells you the unit is on.
You turn it off using the same button by just pressing it and it will say 
something like "Power off."

There was a duel pack with two CD's and one of them is a learning tutorial 
that will walk you step by step threw  the basics.
On the side , with all of the buttons., there is a raised box shaped part. 
this is a 5 way key.
Enter is in the middle of the box and each of the raised bars on the sides 
of the box act as arrow keys.
Just to the left of the box is a flat button that selects  and there is 
another flat button just to the right just above another raised button.
Press the flat button on the right to turn on the reader and also turn it 
off or put it in the off line mode.
The flat button on the left turns on, or selects the "Talks" mode.
Just follow the CD and you will be running the reader in 20 minutes.
I hope this helps.

David Evans, NFBF
Drevans at bellsouth.net

From: "Dave Wright" <gymnastdave at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] A Few Questions About Starting The Reader


> Hi there Pam,
> Please feel free to give me a call and I'll do what I can to assist you. 
> You
> can find my number listed below.
>
>
>   Best Regards,
>   David Wright
> Mobile: (832)518-0707
> Email: dwrigh6 at gmail.com
>
> http://www.knfbreader.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pam Drake" <pamdrake at drakelroy.com>
> To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list"
> <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:38 PM
> Subject: [Reader-users] A Few Questions About Starting The Reader
>
>
>> Hello, List!
>>
>> My Reader arrived yesterday and I immediately phoned my dealer to let him
>> know it had arrived.  He was unavailable, so I left a message and have 
>> not
>> yet received a return call.
>>
>> .  I have been unable to get any reaction whatever from my Reader, no
>> matter
>> what key I press.  .  As
>> the dealer appears to be away, I am on my own for the present.
>>
>> I am wondering whether the problem might be that my flashcard has not 
>> been
>> installed.  There is a card in the box, but I can't figure out just where
>> to
>> insert it.  I have listened thoroughly to the tutorial and checked the
>> text
>> documents, but can't identify the openings and jacks.  I certainly don't
>> want to do anything to damage the unit.  Also, I am not using the unit as
>> a
>> phone for the present time so I'm wondering whether I should connect it 
>> to
>> the computer and check to see whether the software has been installed. 
>> Of
>> course I plan to activate it, but I thought that non-activation allowed
>> the
>> unit to function, albeit in a limited manner.  Or, could my battery be
>> just
>> plain dead?
>>
>> I am also concerned I might have ever-so-slightly dislodged one of the
>> polarizer in an attempt to find the battery pack.  The little piece of
>> plastic was not totally removed but I did notice the sticky back.  Having
>> said that, I have done my level best to make sure I aligned the loose,
>> sticky portion  as carefully as possible.  The alignment seems fine to 
>> me,
>> but with all
>> this discussion of the polarizers I figure I'll try to read, then if I
>> have
>> a problem <or even if I don't> I'll print out the polarizer instruction
>> guide and have a sighted friend check my handiwork as soon as possible.
>> As
>> contact with sightlings in our immediate household on a regular basis is
>> rather infrequent, I'm hoping I get good reads before I have to have it
>> checked.  Of course we can call someone; but we have no idea what 
>> friends'
>> schedules are, and our neighbors, either elderly or just not computer
>> savvy,
>> might
>> make a big mess with this one.  <smile>
>>
>> I would appreciate any information listers may have to help me on my way.
>> Meanwhile, I'll keep working with the keys and looking for something I
>> might
>> have missed in the documentation.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Pam
>>
>>
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