[bookshare-discuss] Re: trouble browsing books with the new site
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:23:34 -0700
Remember that there is no advantage to daisy in most book share books, and .brf
uses a lot less memory.
As far as deleting goes, I've always found my files, at least their names,
still on the card after I've used the stream's delete button. I always have to
put my card in the voice sense to download the book; so I delete then. It
would work the same way with a card reader. The only time I use the stream
delete is by mistake.
----- Original Message -----
From: unknown talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, Jan 22, 2009 6:25:27
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: trouble browsing books with the new site
>
>
> 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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