[bksvol-discuss] Re: important, may write off list, need advice on book storage

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:37:15 -0400

The best suggestion I could give would be to use a burner which provides 
varification as well as a card or flash drive.
No, I'm only using one of those.  But I do have my stuff backed up to another 
hard drive as well.  I didn't plan it, it just worked out that way.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jamie Prater 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:11 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: important, may write off list, need advice on 
book storage


  Hi, thanks for your note, Gary, I did get the usb repaired on my braillenote 
and it got fixed.  They repaired a dual connector.  I've used an SD card and 
tried backing up to a cd.  The backing up to a cd didn't work really well and I 
may have to do that again.  Thanks again for your note and have a blessed day.  
PS:  You're right, there's not a completely foolproof method, I just don't want 
a messed up braillenote and/or lots of lost books.  Have a blessed day.  
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Gary Petraccaro 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:18 AM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: important, may write off list, need advice on 
book storage


    If I understand what you want, there's no way to make it completely 
foolproof and there's no way to make it not a two-step process.  What I hear 
you saying is that you don't trust anything you've tried.  The only other 
things to do would be to try multiple backup systems and to add backing up to 
cd or dvd to your backup options.  The reasons are that you don't trust what 
you've used, this is the only option you haven't listed, and everything will 
fail under some circumstances.


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jamie Prater 
      To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:05 PM
      Subject: [bksvol-discuss] important, may write off list, need advice on 
book storage


      Hi, all, please feel free to write me off list about this matter as I 
need advice about something important.  I have downloaded hundreds--maybe over 
1,000 books from bard and bookshare since 2008, and after some problems with 
tme, I no longer trust thumb drives for storing books on like I have over the 
better part of the past two years.  Particularly for reading on the braille 
note, what is the best way to store all my books in one place?  Formerly, I 
have stored them on either two-gig lexar jump drives and one four-gig sand disk 
drive, and after bad experiences with drives and ports, I no longer trust this 
option as I did.  I tried an external hard drive but am not sure it was 
formatted properly for the braillenote to see it.  I download books from 
bookshare and bard and I eventually want a victor stream, but I also want 
portability.  I bought two 4-gig sand disk sd cards and then discovered they 
didn't work for the braillenote since they were high capacity.  With these 
storage devices being so very tiny, I want the least amount of them to keep up 
with and as versatile option as possible so I can get all of these files out of 
their temporary home on my hard drive of my computer in my documents before my 
documents throws up.  I am an avid reader and plan to go to college, like kids 
books and also download mysteries, craft books, and other books in which I am 
interested and I enjoy having a library in my hand as well as reading books 
from the regional library.  Any help and advice on this would be greatly 
appreciated.  You may write me privately at jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  I can also 
be reached on facebook as Jamie Prater, on skype as Jamie4Jesus, and on twitter 
as ddestiny38.  Thanks very, very much in advance for any help and advice.  
Have an abundantly blessed day.

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