[bookport] Re: BP and Newsline

  • From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:13:43 -0400

Hi Bill:

I've not tried that, but it should work, if they're marked up properly.  When 
you say you use the find command do you really mean that (7,8 and 9), or do you 
mean the c plus f?  The c and f are what you'd want for navigation.



Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY  40206

PHONE:  1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307


>>> wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/18/07 01:35PM >>>
All:
I've been downloading national and local newspapers from Bookshare ever since 
they started carrying them, and often use my BP to read them since it's an 
excellent tool for that.  I decided it would be slick to have them emailed to 
me, so subscribed to that service at nfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  For those who don't 
know and might be interested, you register at the website, then log in by phone 
and add publications to your list of favorites.
One downside to this is that you get the publication emailed each and every 
time a paper updates, so if you have mailbox space issues, this would call for 
care.

When publications are delivered to my mailbox, I save attachments to the 
appropriate folder, then use the transfer software to try and get the .opf file 
to download to by BP.  

Every time I cursor over any of the other files associated with a given 
publication, the software tries to send them to my BP, and I get a book wizard 
error.  Eventually, if I happen to get the cursor on the .opf file, it does 
load into my BP.

When I open the file though, I can't navigate except perhaps by sentence, maybe 
by paragraph, I can't tell for sure.  

Generally, when I want to skip to a given section, I use the BP's find command, 
and look for let's say
S: news

Then, I'll use the find for the search string 
A:
And that way flip quickly through articles. It really is a very efficient way 
to read/skim a whole lot of material.

The Daisy files that I'm getting though, seem to have the section markers 
removed from them, so I can't use the BP's find feature to skip around.

Am I missing something, or are these files not particularly usable with BP??

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment. 

 Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
William Stephan




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