[bookport] Re: Need help with Web Spider
- From: "Watson, Keith" <Keith.Watson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:33:39 -0400
Larry,
Just catching up with this and bct lists this morning. I wanted to ask
whether or not it is possible to grab any of the NFB papers from
bookserve automagically and have them on my BookPort every morning. I
enjoy reading the USA Today and it is rather a pain to have to download,
extract and transfer this material on a daily basis. Any suggestions?
Keith
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[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 7:52 AM
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Subject: [bookport] Re: Need help with Web Spider
Hi Kathy.
The way it is supposed to work is to let you mark a range of links, and
the software downloads the contents (or targets) of those links and
sends them to the Book Port, but there are a lot of sites that trip it
up. I would hold off on even wasting any time on it. We have plans for
a more robust re-write, but I'm not sure about the schedule on that yet.
>>> kblackbn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:07:43 PM >>>
Larry explained that for audio files, the best procedure to get them
into the Book Port is to save them on the computer's hard drive using
"Save Target as" in the Internet Explorer context menu and then connect
the Book port and run Book Port Transfer.
Fine. I'm still puzzled, though, in regard to Web Spider. I have tried
going to our newspaper's website and putting my cursor on a link. Do I
hit return to bring up the article I want and then bring up Web Spider,
or use the IE context menu and choose Web spider from the first screen?
I've seen the buttons on the Web Spider screen, and I've read the
manual, but I still can't figure out how to gather the articles I want
and get them queued for transmission to the Book Port. Will I still be
hearing all those unnecessary links on the page once the articles are in
the Book Port?
Kathy Blackburn
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