Re: [book_talk] question for the list
- From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:25:17 -0500
yeah, and isna't that cool? to get books you aren't expecting, as long as
they're ones you want to read, Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:23 PM
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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