[bookport] Re: file names question
- From: "Lynnette" <superlynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:26:22 -0400
You're right on all counts, Rose. Glad you're into it all. I echo your
sentiments on many fronts--with the exception that I do use Audible.
<smile>
Happy reading,
Lynnette
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:24 PM
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
>
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