[macvoiceover] Re: Question About NLS books on the Mac
- From: Dan <keysjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:52:28 -0800
Hello,
Expanding the book is the same as unarchiving it.
Sent from my iMac, using VoiceOver.
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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