[bookport] Re: New York Times and Bookport

  • From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:45:53 -0500

Hi,

I am not sure how to explain this, but, in both yesterday's Times and 
USA-Today daisy version, I found that if I pressed the nine key while 
reading, the Book Port would go to the next heading beautifully. I am off 
to try it again today.

Robert Carter

At 07:58 AM 8/18/2004, you wrote:

>We are working on a subsection command for the Book Port.
>
>There are some architectural barriers in the device that prevent us from =
>using all six levels of a Daisy book, so what we are doing in the short =
>term is providing 2 levels, one that moves from the most broad heading and =
>one command that moves to any heading.
>
>
> >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:57:14 PM >>>
>Larry,
>I have downloaded the New York Times from Bookshare - I can navigate
>from section to section with the Bookport, but I do not see how to
>navigate from article to article easily within a section.
>
>I've also run into this issue with the "New York Times Large Print
>Weekly" in BRF f format from the NLS download site - i.e., I can easily
>navigate from section to section with the Bookport (i.e.,
>"International", "Business", "Science and Health", etc.), but cannot
>easily navigate to the beginning of articles within a particular
>section. =20
>
>For the Bookshare Daisy formats, we probably need to be able to navigate
>by sub-section with the Bookport - Can this be done?
>
>For the NLS formats, perhaps some feedback to NLS and/or modification of
>how Bookport finds sub-sections could work out these issues more easily
>for the user?
>
>I don't know what can be done here.  If you have any suggestions, please
>let us know.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>-- Pete
>
>s
>
>From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bookport] Re: New York Times on Bookshare
>
>These are actually cooler in Daisy format.  With Daisy, you can jump
>from =3D article to article.


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