[macvoiceover] Re: Question About NLS books on the Mac

Hello,
Expanding the book is the same as unarchiving it.


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Dan

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Desi Noller wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> Like you, I always put my books directly on my SD card.  Now I'm really 
> confused though, because with the one book that I did manage to copy from my 
> Mac to my SD card, I didn't do anything in particular but simply copy it.  I 
> was able to read the book on my Stream without any problem.  Before copying 
> the book over to my SD card though, I did expand the book folder which had 
> originally been collapsed.  Do you have any further thoughts on this?  How do 
> you unzip your NLS books before copying them to your SD card?  I was told by 
> someone on the Stream list that I would need an unzip utility for BookShare 
> books, but not for NLS books.  I hope you understand that I'm not arguing 
> with what you have said, just trying to understand the process!  :)
> 
> Desi
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Dan wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> You will need to unzip the archive before putting it on the stream. I just 
>> put my books directly on the SD card instead of using the USB cable, it's 
>> faster this way.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iMac, using VoiceOver.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Desi Noller wrote:
>> 
>>> Good Afternoon,
>>> 
>>> My next question has to due with downloading books from NLS and putting 
>>> them on my Vr Stream.  I've been to the NLS website since I got my Mac, and 
>>> even downloaded one book.  Usually, with my PC once a book was downloaded, 
>>> it had to be unzipped before being placed on the SD card of my Stream.  
>>> Someone has told me that I can put the books directly from my Mac on to the 
>>> Stream without going through this process.  Can anyone shed any further 
>>> light on this for me?  I am especially confused because I understand that 
>>> to use books from Bookshare, I need a little "unzip" utility.  Thanks so 
>>> much for your help!
>>> 
>>> Desi>
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