If Nancy means reading with a braille display connected to her computer, can she do this? I happen to transfer my BRF books to a flash card for reading on the BrailleNote, but as I have a braille display, I tried loading it to the folder suggested and found that I got a "is not a valid win32 application. The file was unzipped but did I do something wrong or can't this be done? Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: Lori Castner To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 11:16 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: reading a .brf book Hi, Nancy, I will give you the method I use to unzip the book and save it as a .brf file which can be then read, saved to a flash drive, etc. Once I have downloaded the book from bookshare to my computer I Enter on the name of the .zip file. A file with a .brf extension appears; I space to select that file. Then I press alt and will be in the file menu. I arrow up to the choice extract all and press enter. Then I tab to next. The prompt gives the option of where it will save the file but you can browse to save it wherever you wish. Once I have chosen the location to save I tab to the edit box for my bookshare pasword. I enter my pasword in that field and tab to next and press enter. A box appears which says something like "show all files". That box should already be checked, so I tab to finish and press enter. This may be more detail than you want or need, but I hope it answers your question. Cat Lover Lori ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Martin To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:24 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] reading a .brf book Hi everyone, I downloaded several .brf books from Bookshare but can't read them. From the context menu I choose "open with compressed zip folder". I give my password, then I'm placed in a download situation where I'm asked if I want to open or cancel this file. Selecting open gets me that message about Windows doesn't know what program to use to open this kind of file. Going online to look gets me nowhere and I can't figure out what program to choose from a list. I was under the impression that all I needed was a braille display but no special software. Besides that, I thought the book was already downloaded. Why am I shown a download box? I'd appreciate any help from anyone who uses this format and a braille display. thanks much, Nancy Martin Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.364 / Virus Database: 270.12.67/2173 - Release Date: 06/13/09 05:53:00