Personal prefference, I guess, but I've always found it easier to rename the files during the download process, including the volume number as part of the name just before the dot brf. I keep that box checked and always know exactly what book and which volume of that book I'm dealing with. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Weinger" <jnweinger@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:13 AM Subject: [bookport] Correction: RE: Re: file names question > Rose, > Here is a correction. Yesterday I wrote that you should check the box for > "Send Filename as Title" in the Book Port Transfer Program. This should > have read: uncheck the box for "Send Filename as Title" in the Book Port > Transfer Program. The corrected message follows. > > > Rose, > If you have your Web Braille books on your PC, then you could uncheck the > box for "Send Filename as Title" in the Book Port Transfer Program. Now, > re-send all of your Web Braille files to your Book Port. When you transfer > those Web Braille books, having the number names, the Transfer Program will > name the files on your Book Port based upon the first words within the file, > usually the book title. On the Book Port, your web Braille files will have > useful names. > > Sincerely, > Jerry Weinger > -----Original Message----- > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Jerry Weinger > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:27 PM > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bookport] Re: file names question > > Rose, > If you have your Web Braille books on your PC, then you could check the box > for "Send Filename as Title" in the Book Port Transfer Program. Now, > re-send all of your Web Braille files to your Book Port. When you transfer > those Web Braille books, having the number names, the Transfer Program will > name the files on your Book Port based upon the first words within the file, > usually the book title. On the Book Port, your web Braille files will have > useful names. > > Sincerely, > Jerry Weinger > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Rose Combs > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:25 PM > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bookport] Re: file names question > > You all will probably cringe at this one but when I started downloading Web > Braille books to my computer in 2000 I never renamed anything. The problem > is, of course, those numbers are totally meaningless. I was for some time > trying to keep a list of the titles and their numbers but not recently. I > have probably over 100 volumes of Web Braille on my Braille note, and > probably at least as many files from Bookshare, which do have real titles > there too. So far, because I have not wanted to rename files, the books I > have transported to the book port have been Bookshare books. > > One thing I was thinking about last night that I'd like to share! > > When I was in school at Arizona State School for the Blind in the 1960's and > very early 1970's it was wonderful to go to the library and spend a bit of > time browsing and then selecting books, and it is probably the thing I > missed the most after graduation. With the advent of Web Braille and Book > share, however, I am quite contented with all the books I can download and > save to read whenever I have time and the beauty of it is I don't have to > return any of them which means if I start a book and for whatever reason do > not finish it immediately I am not hurting anyone. Between the Braille > Note, the Book Port and my computer with K1000 on board, I can read as many > books as I want, have them in different stages, read and decide it isn't my > kind of book after all, carry it with me, read in in braille using the > Braille note, or listen to it using the computer, the Braille Note or the > Book Port and now I have no reason to miss the school library because I can > have it tailored to my reading tastes just with a few keystrokes. This is > so cool to have access to thousands of books and to be able to choose to > read or not read, to start and abandon or decide to read it later and move > on to something else. It is amazing. > > I don't know about the rest of you but the past five years since they > started Web Braille, Book share and the devices such as the Braille Note, > the computer, and the Book port, there is no reason I have to be without > reading material. In 1997, just eight years ago I fell in some mud and > broke my collarbone in two places. At that time I could not read braille > because I read only left handed, or let's say I could but I had to move the > book with my right hand instead of my arm and hand so it was painful. I ran > out of NLS cassettes--and it seemed that flipping cassettes was about all I > could do with either hand without pain. I had a few days in which I had > absolutely nothing to listen to, days when I could not sleep, could not do > housework, days when I was so bored I wanted to die, when all that I could > find on TV was about Princess Di's death and drove my family so crazy that > they bought me some taped books or when to the public library for me because > I literally cried for lack of reading materials. Eventually my library got > me back on schedule and I also healed but for about a week I was totally > miserable from pain and no escape reading. That could never happen to me > again today. So much has changed in the past eight years and I truly love > it. > > Thanks for the Book port which is so small that carrying it with me is no > problem, but thanks for the Braille Note that lets me have it under my > fingers for times when that is best for me, or when I am listening to pod > casts or something. > > Thanks for Bookshare and Web Braille. Maybe some day I will actually check > out Audible.com but so far, I just do not have the time to do that. > > > > > > > > Rose Combs > rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Crystal French > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:25 PM > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bookport] file names question > > > Hi, > Usually, when I have several volumes to a book, I just include the volume > number with the title. > > I am still new to the Book Port. > > I created a folder, and then, transferred the two volumes of a .brf book to > the folder. > > The BP does not seem to include the 2 when speaking the second volume, but > it does show this way when viewing the files on the PC. > > Here is how I have it written: > > Waystation.brf > Waystation2.brf > > I am probably doing something stupid here, but could someone tell me the > convention to use to distinguish multiple volumes? > > Thank you. > Crystal > > > > > > > >