[bookport] Daisy books was RE: Re: A workaround for large file placement
- From: "Rusty Perez" <rusty.perez@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:33:56 -0700
Hi Roy,
Wow! Six CD's! Amazing!
Well, are you able to go in to the setting keypad and jump to a page?
Remember, if you're new at the BP, you arrow up and down with 2 and 8 to get
to where it says, "page." Does it give you page numbers there? By pressing
5, you can enter a page number, and press pound to go to the entered page.
If the book is one which has been converted to CD but was originally on
tape, things may be a little messy. It may be that you won't hear the page
number, because the digital mark was placed after the number was recorded.
Also, use your page forward and backward commands, 7 and 9 to go from page
to page.
I find that RFB isn't any too generous with their heading and subheading
markers. And, the truth is that sometimes they don't make much sense to me.
But, when you select to have files "not" sent as music, BP puts in markers
based on pauses in the recorded text. So, by pressing 4 and 6 you can go
between roughly paragraph sized sections of text. 1 and 3 goes even smaller.
It's not exact, but it works. You can also compress the text to get more on
the BP. Here's how to set that up. Go in to the bookport transfer software.
Go to options. Tab to the place where it asks "transfer audio files as
music?" Say no on that. Then you will be given an advanced audio settings
button. You'll find some good stuff there. You can sellect whether you'd
like the file to be sped up. You can tell BP to cut spaces down between
words.
If you have more questions, please let me know.
I've had pretty good success with daisy files. I do wish there were no size
limitations, but we're headed that direction so I'm happy.
Rusty
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-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Roy Pfeiffer
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:41 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: A workaround for large file placement
Rusty, it does seem you have helped me solve my problem too. I am trying to
work with a 6 CD set from RFB&D in which the author makes frequent page
references both forward and backward (Barzun's From Dawn to Decaddance.).
And yes, there are other problems. For instance, I'm not getting as much
section and subsection help as I expected. Is there anything special which
has to be done to get Book Port to recognize a Daisy book? Even the page
numbers are missing from the Daisy book I have entered into Book Port.
I am in the discovery process as I write this message. The missing page
numbers are very discouraging. To my mind, it means that I will not be able
to work on "text books" in Daisy format when away from my computer.
I would appreciate learning how you are handling Daisy books on the Book
Port.
Sincerely,
Roy Pfeiffer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rusty Perez" <rusty.perez@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:28 AM
Subject: [bookport] A workaround for large file placement
> Hi folks,
> This morning I attached my bp to my computer. My ame was to try and get
> the
> two halves of a 550 mb daisy file in one directory so I could flip from
> chapters in the front, to example material in the back of the book.
> Previously I had tried to put both halves in the same directory, but,
> since
> the bp software doesn't allow that, the first half was erased by the
> second
> half.
> So, I connected the bp and opened up windows explorer.
> I went in and found the second half of the book. I renamed the files,
> leaving the extentions in tact, but adding a B to the end of the initial
> file name. Then I moved those files, placing them in the same directory as
> the first half of the book.
> It works like a stiff drink on a cold night! Just the thing!
> BP reports the filenames correctly--that is that it tells me the name of
> the
> daisy book and the page numbers asociated with that particular file. The
> file name change does not seem to affect the operation at all. I can
> quickly
> flip back and forth between files and things are good!!!
>
> Have fun!
> Rusty
>
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