Re: [book_talk] question for the list
- From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:44:52 -0500
hey, come on over, we can have a reading fest, LOL, the two i got today were
by kerry greenwood, and woops, forgot the other one, LOL, running out of
room, for sure, better read a bit faster, LOL, Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [book_talk] question for the list
> 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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