Re: [book_talk] question for the list
- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:31:33 -0800
Happiness is! That's one heck of a lot of books. Don, you are making me
jealous. Smile.
Now, here's a question, how do you keep track of the lot? Do you sort out
the in coming and then add them to the end of the line and just let them
snake around the walls of the room?
Rosemarie
-----Original Message-----
From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Don Marr
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:20 PM
To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
yay, just got four more boxes of braille, LOL,now up to 109 boxes in my
room, or maybe 107, but who's counding, LOL, Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
> My library didn't have a priority list and a regular list. They'd send
> whatever was available no matter. Interesting that yours does. It
> should cut down on the waiting time for favorite authors and
> bestsellers.
>
> Rosemarie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Sharon S
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:23 PM
> To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
>
> Hi, I got home the other day and my mum asked me what books I was
> expecting because three big bags and one small package had arrived
> that day. I was expecting a couple of them to be in braille but I
> didn't realise all four books that the library had sent me were in
> braille. They are all three or four volumes except one that is only
> one small volume but I didn't actually ask for them to be sent. They
> were all books I have on a list of books with the library that I
> wanted to read at some stage but they weren't on the high priority
> list so I wasn't expecting them to be sent out. I'm guessing because I
> had sent back my last braille book the computer decided I needed
> another lot of braille so just went through my list and randemly
> picked some books off the list. One of them I wasn't expecting to be
> in braille because it is also available in audio so when I saw it on
> my loan list I asumed that it was the audio they had sent me that was
> until all these bags turned up.
>
> Well all I can say is I won't run out of hard copy braille for some
> time now.
> From Shaz.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
>
>
> | Such a wonderful home coming! I used to love coming home to find big
> | boxes of books waiting for me. It was such fun going through the boxes!
> Ah
> well.
> | Getting excited over magazine boxes just isn't the same. Smile.
> |
> | Maybe when you load the bard zip braille books when there are more
> | than
> one
> | volume you're presented with a sub list of some sort ... Still,
> fortunately,
> | bookshare is quite likely to have anything you can find on BARD.
> | Maybe
> Lucy
> | will solve the mystery or someone else with a braille note will come
> | up
> with
> | the answer.
> |
> | Good reading,
> |
> | Rosemarie
> |
> |
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:54 AM
> | To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
> |
> | thanks, RoseMarie, guess maybe i didn't unzip the files, don't have
> | to
> unzip
> | them with bookshare, just took them from bard, put them on my flash
> | card, and transferred them on to the note, read one volume, but not
> | the rest,
> ahh
> | well, if it comes to that, may just delete all my bard books, and
> | just stick with bookshare, i know with them i get a whole book, LOL,
> | not like i don't have enough to read, when we got back from our trip
> | on saturday, i
> had
> | 27 boxes of braille books waiting for me on our inside porch, one of
> | the piles was taller than Lucy, LOL, Don Don
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:34 PM
> | Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
> |
> |
> | > The web braille books are bundled into one zip folder, so when you
> | > download a book, you get one file even if there or two or three or
> | > any other number of volumes. Once downloaded and unzipped you get
> | > the individual volumes. I don't have a braille note, so I guess it
> | > depends on whether you load the zip file or if you unzip the file
> | > before loading. Sorry I can't help more than this, but knowing how
> | > the files download might help you figure it out.
> | >
> | > Good reading.
> | >
> | > Rosemarie
> | >
> | >
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | > On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 5:44 AM
> | > To: book talk
> | > Subject: [book_talk] question for the list
> | >
> | > has anyone downloaded books from bard to read in braille on a
> | > braille note?
> | > i ask this, cause I did, and only one volume came through, i
> | > thought now you could download the whole book, but i read one
> | > volume, and the file ended, asked my wife about it, she says
> | > she'll check it out, but she's been busy, so any help would be
> | > appreciated, thanks, Don Don the curmudgeon has spoken.
> | > dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
> |
>
>
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