[access-uk] Re: RNIB Overdrive - Faults in conversion from Daisy to Overdrive format

  • From: "Eleanor Martha Burke" <eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:59:55 -0000

What do you mean 15 for 12 months Chris? Did you just pay £15, that would be strange as the subscription is £50. 


Eleanor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <challsworth2@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 7:40 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Overdrive - Faults in conversion from Daisy to Overdrive format 



Hi all,
Same here. Other than the negative feedback here, I just haven't found anything interesting. I only paid to see what the hype was about as well as to take advantage of their 15 for the price of 12 months introductory offer only to now regret it. Oh well it's something we all have to do in life I guess. 

On 02/12/2014 12:02, Keith wrote:

Hello Paul,
I subscribe to the Overdrive service, and to date I have found problems with 
three books. I use Winamp to play the books.

The first two, in part 1, the part is blank apart from the initial
publishing blurb.
And then, only yesterday, I borrowed A Certain Justice, by P D James, and, 
again in Part 1, after the initial blurb, Track 8 was announced.
I have reported all three issues, and had a full response on the first two, 
but have only, so far, received the automated response on the third.

At the moment, I am rather regretting parting with £50!

With best wishes,

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Paul Warner
Sent: 02 December 2014 10:49
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] RNIB Overdrive - Faults in conversion from Daisy to
Overdrive format
I think it was Mo who posted a while back that some titles borrowed from the 
new Overdrive service were jumbled due to errors at conversion to the new
format. I have read a few titles without detecting any such problems until I started on 'A History of Eastern Europe', a tome which apparently takes 62 
hours at normal speed - or maybe not...

At the beginning of the book, the authors provide a detailed table of
contents and then a summary of important events with respective dates before 
the preface and chapter 1.  I found that the reading of the table of
contents and the summary was often in the wrong order and some parts were
even repeated. Skipping past the irrelevant bits, it soon became apparent that some parts of later chapters had found their way into the first part of 
the book, rendering the whole thing unreadable.  I have advised the
Overdrive service in the hope that they will reconvert the book.

Having recently transferred my subscription from Daisy to Overdrive, I am
now a bit nervous that I might find part way through a book that there are sections out of order, repeated or even missing. I can't be sure that the 
next book I read will be correct.  Anyone else experiencing this?

Paul


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