[bookport] Re: Unfiltered files
- From: "Donald R. Bowman" <drbowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:01:19 -0400
Hi Dave,
You need to unpack the bookshare files you download from bookshare.org.
Just go to the website where you downloaded the bookshare book and click on the
software downloads link and download and install the bookshare unpack utility
software on to your computer.
Then, unpack the books you have;
After that is done, you can use the bookport transfer software to transfer
books to your son's bookport.
It has been my experience, however, that the daisy books from bookshare work
better than .brf on bookport.
I don't know why that is so.
DRB
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Witte, buiness
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:46 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Unfiltered files
Good morning,
My son is 11 yo and has been using his Bookport mainly for listening to music
and a few stories. I have recently signed him up for BookShare.org and we
downloaded the first file this morning. We downloaded a .BRF file and copied
it to a CF card using a flash card reader/writer. When I attempted to start
the file I got a message that said "Playing unfiltered files not supported" I
thought that perhaps I needed to use the Bookport transfer software so I
deleted the file and reloaded it using that. I got the copyright warning file
fine, but I still can't access the book file and get the same message. This
has happened in the past when we have transferred stories that were written on
the BrailleNote and stored in .BRF format. We are hoping to be able to store
the files on a CF card so that they can be read using the refreshable display
on the BrailleNote and listened to on the Bookport.
Are .BRF files not allowed? To do what we want will I have to store two
versions, a .BRF for the BrailleNote and a Daisy file for the Bookport? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
Blue Skies,
Dave
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