It sounds neat. Could you play the books on your computer without having to buy one of those players? I may check out the site at least and see if I can do anything with it ... I'm not sure if our library here in Tennessee works with them or not but I can take a look and see what happens anyway. Thanks for the info, and sorry if this question was off topic or if everyone else already knows about it already so this is repeat info.
MissWings At 02:12 PM 6/13/2007, lana wrote:
Here we go again. As soon as we finish this topic, it comes up again.I, for one, am glad. the more people interested, the stronger the program will become. NLS in some states has an arrangement with overdrive.com. You can download audio books. Unlike audible, you don't pay for them, but they only stay useable on your computer for two weeks. Also, they take special players. Book port won't work, YET. Also, some local libraries are in the program, but you'll get a wider variety from the NLS program. Players that I know will work are the muvo 512 mix. I got mine directly from creative, but don't remember the exact website; so that won't help, much. Perkins advertises it was them. they are around $50. Emphasize on the around. there is also the olympus DS 50, which costs about five times as much, and other osters are talking about the creative zen stone player, about which I know nothing.Remember, not all MP3 players are accessable, and not all can play overdrive. ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:misswings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>MissWingsTo: <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:22 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunkstersI like Nick Sullivan's reading of them from NLS. What is this Overdrive thing? I've never heard of it. Is it something like Audible? Just curious.MissWings At 10:08 AM 6/13/2007, lana wrote:you have three more to go, plus the one that had better come out in November. NLS has them, as does overdrive, if you have access to these, and, of course, bookshare, but the readers are very good.----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:misswings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>MissWingsTo: <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:05 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunkstersSpeaking of Terry Goodkind, I'm getting ready to start the seventh book of the Sword of Truth series, which I'm liking so far. Well since I've read six books I hope I like it! I've read them from NLS, and I like the narrator for them. I didn't know any more were coming out ... I thought there were only ten of them? Or is he writing more of them that I don't know about. Hopefully I can get them read before then so I'll be ready when the next one comes out, although who knows how long it'll take NLS to get it. It'll give me something to look forward to after waiting for the last Harry Potter book to come out anyway.MissWings At 12:39 AM 6/13/2007, lana wrote:With one exception, all the Terry Goodkind books are chunksters. Since the last one is supposed to come out in November, it's a good time to refresh and get us in the mood for what I hope will be a true series final, not just a blackout like Sepranos, but if you thought that was bad, ever see the final Blake's 7 episode!!! We don't need another like that.----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Amy Goldring Tajalli To: <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:01 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunkstersA perfect long read or reread for the summer [except I just finished it] would be: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at 1260 but someone would need to scan [preferably] the Modern Library edition translated by Charles Wilbur. All the other easily available editions, including the one in Bookshare, are edited and abridged [badly and only 840 pp]. Tolstoy's War and Peace in the Bookshare edition is 1680 pp which seems a little short but I don't know the translator or Scanner. If someone wants to try it I would be interested in more information. [if it had not been for Alexander Scourby reading it to me when I first started using talking books I might never have finished it. I did not when I had enough sight to read it that way.] Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago is only 638 page and if you are not already familiar with 20 th century Russian History, and some 18th, it may seem a lot longer. I hope someone will scan volumes 2 and 3 of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. They are worth the effort both to scan and to read. All 3 together probably total close to 2000 pages.----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>Amber Wallenstein To: <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] a fun topic, summer chunkstersI posted this to a few book groups, and am interested to see what chunksters you all will be reading this summer.... And if anyone can give me names of other long books that are on bookshare,that you loved, that would be great too.Books I want to read this summer include: * The Terror by Dan Simmons at a whopping 769 pages* the new Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling at a much to short 784 pages, which I plan to savor* A Suitable Boy byVikram Seth at a jaw-dropping 1349 pages * The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett at 973 pages* Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King by J R R Tolkien at a combined1635 pages and short books thrown in there for good measure... The total for these chunkster books is drum-roll.... 5510 pages. Whew! I better get busy,then yes?I'll update as the summer progresses! Amber Book blog:<http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/>http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/ I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I giveyou this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. John Adams E-Mail: <mailto:amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxxNo virus found in this incoming message. 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