[bookshare-discuss] Re: trouble browsing books with the new site
- From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:24:56 -0500
Hi Roger,
I've never used the Stream Companion software, as I have my card
reader, which I find more convenient for my purposes.
Admittedly, I am a bit of a dinosaur, and I still find myself
dropping into a DOS box to accomplish certain file management task.
The $VRDTB folder however, is the one that is intended for daisy
books, whether they be from Bookshare or the NLS.
Unfortunately, for a while there, the Bookshare daisy files had
issues, and being of a conservative nature in some things, I'm not
going to say they've gone away until we go a few months without any hitches.
Sometimes when a Bookshare daisy book was put on the Stream, the
Stream would skip right over it not seeing it at all; other times it
would read the title the first time, not letting you access it, and
then skip over it after that;
on other occasions, it would read the title, access the book, and
tell you that you were at the end; while in some instances it would
read it just fine.
Thankfully, I think the latter case prevails right now, and the only
problem I have seen lately, is that when deleting a book from the
Stream via its own delete feature, the daisy folders aren't always
being removed as there seem to be 1 or more files in them that the
Stream doesn't associate with daisy books.
I'm not sure who, if either, is straying from the daisy standard,
(which isn't really so standard, as it is evolving) or not fully
implementing it, or adlibbing a bit.
In any case, I guess for a while, I will continue to put a copy of
the xml book I wish to read into the $VRText folder, as well as the
daisy edition in its place, because I find it easier to delete extra
files later, rather than having to go back and transfer files once I
think I'm done and ready to read.
Dave
At 11:31 PM 1/21/2009, you wrote:
That is how I am doing it, except that I am transferring only the
XML file. The description of the problem, though, sounds like
something I ran into at an earlier time. I seemed to be transferring
the file to the card perfectly well, but then when I got the card
into the Stream the book was not there. When I examined the contents
of the card with my computer, though, I did find the book I was
trying to put on it. The problem was that it was in no folder. At
the end of the list of folders it was sitting there as if it was a
folder itself. I finally reformatted the card and started over using
the Stream Companion. I was careful to transfer the file into the
folder labeled text. The one labeled dtb seems to be for talking
books like one gets from the NLS. It also seems that when
transferring using the companion the only file that shows as
available for transfer is the XML file. That is apparently why this
problem with putting books from the new site on the Stream does not
seem to have effected me.
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