[bookshare-discuss] Re: Off Topic
- From: Ron Miller <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:46:52 -0500
Hello again Sue,
You only need to find a device that will read/write from/to compact flash I
cards. Looking briefly at the website that Dave supplied, I saw several
under $10 that fill this requirement quite nicely. Hopefully, you have a pc
with USB ports. If not, there are card readers that will interface via
serial instead of USB--however, I don't know how available those are. You
may need to hunt on sites like Next Tag, etc.
Pam, you can definitely use WinDisk to transfer books to your Braille Lite
2000. I have done this quite a lot and have read hundreds of books using my
own BLT2000. WinDisk makes the Braille Lite look like a hard drive in
Windows Explorer or My Computer and you can easily cut and paste files to
the notetaker.
Take care all.
Ron Miller
-----Original Message-----
From: siss52 [mailto:siss52@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:59 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Off Topic
Hi Dave,
Would a compact drive be what the manual refers to as a compact flash for
add-on memory??
Thanks for the website address.
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Off Topic
Hi Sue,
I'm not Ron, but you can get Flash card drives starting for $6.99 to about
$22 from Computer Geeks.
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=RDM
Dave
At 07:31 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Ron,
>
>I found out that if I buy a cable of the type I need it will cost
>$34.50 counting shipping and handling. FS will not exchange it. But
>$30 for a flash card reader sounds more economical to me. But where do
>you get it?
>
>Sue
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:38 PM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Off Topic
>
>
> Hi Sue,
>If you find that you've got around $30 to spare some month, you can
purchase
>a compact flash card reader that will connect to your pc and will be
treated
>like a hard disk drive in Windows Explorer or My Computer. You can load
>a lot of books very quickly to your compact flash card (the size of a
>Wheat Thin cracker).
>
>I've got a relatively small (64 mega bytes) card and have all of the
Horatio
>Hornblower, and Honor Herrington series, along with all of the Bolo
>series and tons of other books on it with room left over that I still
>haven't filled yet.
>
>Its absolutely fantastic to me to be able to put the equivalent of
thousands
>of braille volumes into my pocket and carry it away with me. As a kid,
>I used to be happiest when a new bunch of those wonderful metal
>cornered
boxes
>would arrive from the Library Of Congress on a Friday ensuring a good
supply
>of reading material for the whole weekend.
>
>Best regards and happy reading on your new Millennium
>
>
>Ron Miller
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: siss52 [mailto:siss52@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:35 PM
>To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Off Topic
>
>
>
>I can't believe this! I already had a bookshare book on my computer
>and it seems that all of it fit on a floppy! Now I can transfer it to
>the Braille Lite and read away! Yippee!!!
>
>Sue S.
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