[bookcourier] Re: repeated sections of BookShare books
- From: Ted Shelly <tshelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:41:43 -0400
Lester,
I have seen this rather frequently on the BookCourier and it is generally a
problem with the BC, not the Bookshare book. If you look at the support
area of the BC web site you will see a mention of this as a bug that has
been fixed. You should make sure you have the latest version of the BC
software and also the transfer tool software.
But even though I have the latest versions I still see this problem
sometimes. There are two ways to get around it that I have found.
In the first method you need to unpack the book and create the HTML version
when prompted. Open the HTML version in a browser or other tool like MS
Word. Then save it as a plain text file. Then load this onto the BC (not
the .bks file).
The second method is to open the .bks file in Kurzweil 1000 and then use
K1000's "send" feature to load it onto the BC. This is what I do and it
always works great. But of course, you must have K1000 (and the 1000 stands
for the cost!), but K1000 has many other very useful features and is worth
the price.
Ted
-----Original Message-----
From: bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookcourier-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of A. Lester Buck III
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:41 PM
To: bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookcourier] repeated sections of BookShare books
I was wondering if others that listen to the BookShare formatted books might
be able to help answer a question for me. I would ask this on the BookShare
list, but I can't find such a list on the BookShare.org web site, and I
can't quite be sure that it's a BookShare problem, being very new to Book
Courier. In addition, I couldn't find any reference to this in the
BookShare FAQ on the web site.
I set up my father on the Book Courier, and I loaded a pile of content onto
it before I delivered it to him. I learned the keys well enough to be his
technical support over the phone. [I won't go into the problems that arise
when I forget and start describing the BC with four rows of keys instead of
five, and the horribly confusing instructions one can give over the phone
about entering library mode when that happens... "The star key, the first
key in the last row." Argh!!]
I loaded about thirty BookShare books into various topical folders. On the
BookShare site, there is an estimate of the "errors" in the book.
Alas, I can't tell what an "error" is. Does this mean that a certain word
is misspelled, or a word is missing?
I am asking this because, at least in the first few pages of the three or
four BookShare books I listened to while learning the keys and functions,
there is a lot of repeated text. What I mean is that at, apparently random
points, suddenly the Book Courier is repeating a sentence or usually a
paragraph that it just read only a few paragraphs back. At first, I thought
that this was just an echo of earlier text, some artistic repetition by the
author, but after a while it becomes clear that it is word for word
repetition. I didn't have a lot of time to figure this out, and I also
thought maybe I was using the controls incorrectly, but my father has
reported this same esffect when he listens to other books. Progress is
eventually made through the book, but it's a three steps forward, one back,
type of effect.
Has this happened to anyone else? Is this what BookShare refers to as
"errors"? Or is something broken in my father's particular Book Courier?
Thanks alot!
Lester
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