Hi, Jeanne,
To use .brf files your friend would haave to have signed up for BARD
and/or Bookshare. For NLS there are various means to find a braille book
and download it. My personal choicee is the quicksearch NLS catalog. Your
friend can locate books by title, author, or key words. If the book is
available as a .brf file each volume will appear as a link in the search
results. She can click on the volume link and enter a filename if it asks
for one or leave the filename thaat appears which is the book's br number.
Each volume should download in whatever way his/her system usually
downloads files. If the braille display is connected to a computer, the
.brf file can be opened in any word processor such as MSWord, WordPerfect
etc.
Most .brf files are between 36 and 40 characters per line. All have 25
lines of text per page with a form-feed at the end of each page. Sometimes
the .brf files appear in 8-dot braille. If this is annoying yyour friend
can switch to 6-dot braille on the braille display. There are some books
in uncontracted braille. Your friends could find these by typing
"uncontracted braille" in the key word space in the catalog search form.
Hope ;thhis helps a litle.
Catherine
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