Hi, Sandy and List,
Michael
Did you have fun downloading The Scottish Chiefs? I would not do that again on a bet! I think you can now download the complete text all at once from Gutenburg.
Here's the inside joke. With some books in HTML, you have to download the book a chapter at a time, pasting the chapters into a word processor document. I sort of recommended the Scottish Chiefs to Michael. That book is close to 70 chapters long! I DID warn him, though. It gives a whole new meaning to the word, "tedious".
At 01:04 PM 9/16/2006, Michael Bowman-Jones wrote:Greetings Walt and List,
Well, turns out it didn't work--all I got was the Table of Contents page. It does make me wonder though if a book could be transferred by chapter, which could be real tedious if the volume has 60-70 chapters in it. I know this will bring a laugh out of a certain list participant out there--I was messing around with The Scottish Chiefs.
Michael
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 7:05 AM Subject: [bookport] Re: Getting books for my BP
If you use JAWS, press JAWS Key (INSERT)+T to see what's happening. I didn't
realize you could download directly to the BP, but I've never fiddled around
with Book Port Spider, either.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 3:04 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Getting books for my BP
Hi, David and List.
Here's a follow-up to Chase's question. Once a book has been found and the
download is attempted, is there a way to monitor or check the ongoing
status? (I did not see such in the manual but I could have missed it.) As
a "newbie" so to speak, just for grins I went to the .edu link listed in
Walt's previous message and found a book to download. Alt-f did nothing for
me option-wise, so I tried the Applications menu, which offered up the BP
Spider. Even as we speak, the unit seems to be doing something, as I get an
eight-note tune every so often. (I was expecting a beep more than a tune.)
Given that I am not sure what's happening, I am just letting it do its
thing. Is what I describe supposed to be happening? (If not, I guess I
will have to go back to the manual and do some more re-reading.)
Thanks in advance to whomever lends their expertise; it is highly appreciated.
God Bless you all and have a great day. Michael
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