Category: book Nook
Who uses nls here?
and if so do you like it?
also, does anyone know if I can use unabridged straight from my braillenote?
I haven't used NLS in awhile but would like to do so again in the near future. I loved when they sent me tapes of random things. Sometimes, I enjoyed them and sometimes I didn't. But I read several interesting books that way. I just need to get my recorder fixed so that I can play the tapes. I really have no interest in the digital stuff. i actually wonder if they still have the records? I'm planning on getting a four-speed player and would love to try some out.
have you heard of the new players?
I use NLS and love it. I love it even more now that I can download books whenever I want rather than waiting for them to send me what I request.
NO, the braille note will not play the digital audio files from NLS. However, it will read the brf files web braille has available.
what is web braille?
A service offered by NLS that makes all the braille books they have available for digital download. Google web braille and you can learn all you wanted to know and more.
I should be getting one of the new players sometime this week so we'll see how that goes. Would people have the web address for the site though as i lost it when my computer was reformatted
The site for signing up is https://nlsbard.loc.gov. Once you are approved, you will get a password and then be prompted to pick a new one of your choosing.
I got the new player.
its pretty cool.
although, I'll miss the tapes.
I also use NLS. I get some Braille magazines from them, but I also recently started using the WebBraille service, which I really like as well, as I can take books with me and read them off the BrailleSense. I have not gotten one of those new audioplayers yet, but my grandpa has one and he likes it. I do want to get one though, and after that, I will probably go ahead and get signed up to download and read the digital books with it.
getting signed up with them isn't all that much of a problem, just tell them who you are, what library you use, and bingo. I got my player last night, and i love it already. not only will i be able to finnaly get rid of the old tapes i have but i can cancel them off as a lot of the magazines i read are offered on the site.
Exactly what about the tapes will you miss? Having to rewind one before you can start listening to a book? Finding a tape missing from the container or having at least one wrong tape in the container? Having to take tapes out and fiddle with them to get them to play?
I don't miss any of that.
I'll miss.
having to rewind them.
you can get more of an exact position of where you left off if you fall asleep while listening.
I signed up for bard and now I'm waiting for my confermation.
If a book is recent, it ismarked so you can move around by chapters or subheadings. As one who frequently dozes off, I find it quicker to find where I left off. I haven't had much experience with the new NLS players, but I believe you can set them to run for a certain period of time as well.
Lou
Yes, there is something on the new digital players called the sleep mode where you can set it to stop playing after 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Also, I find these new machines much easier to move back and forth in a book on than the cassette players. And, even though I download books and do not receive books on cartridges from the library, I love the fact that you never need to rewind a cartridge before sending it back to the library. It will start at the beginning for the next person who receives that book without you having to do anything.
I don't miss cassettes at all. With sleep timers, the ability to create bookmarks on digital players and headinggs to jump around within a title, I find that it is much quicker and easier to navigate around the digital books than cassettes. I also love downloading whatever I want, whenever I want. NLS is great.
I think I've only fallen asleep listening to a book once or twice in my life. If you listen to a book and finish it, it should be at the beginning in any case. Also, if you stop at a certain point, whenever you play the tape again, it'll be at that same point. the only advantage I could see in the digital ones, other than them not breaking, is that you can move around by headings, chapters etc. But what if you just wanted to rewind or fastforward very slightly because you missed a sentence or something? NLS tapes were always very nice. RFB And D's tapes, on the other hand, were absolutely horrible. I sincerely hope they've switched over to digital or at least that they got better quality tapes and recording equipment.
You can fast forward and rewind the digital players by small increments as well. You aren't limited to just jumping by headings. You can jump anywhere from 5 seconds to several minutes with the press of a button. The digital players are extremely flexible when it comes to navigation.
Now, if only they could take the daisy technology they're using and syncronize it with text so that deaf-blind patrons could take advantage of it as well. The technology exists, but they claime it's too expensive.
I have just the basic player so I can't put bookmarks or jump by heading.
mine only goes by chapter and thats only sometimes.
but I still really like it!!!!
hey, I just got aproved for bard.
I know I can't play the books on my braillenote but can I download them onto a dump drive?
I love using NLS. I mostly use the digital site now, but occasionally receive tapes if what I want isn't available.
ok, I just heard that it is empossible to even download the books with a braillenote from bard, is this true?
well, consider just how big the books are, plus they're compressed in zip files when you download.
yes you can put a book at a time on a thumb drive and plug it in to the side of the machine. It's quite handy if you don't want to coff up the money at the moment to find a place with blank cartridges. Amused though. the library sent me the player and some cartridges, but last week low and behold I open the mail box to find tapes. I was like urm? I sent 2 of them back straight away and let another nls member borrow the other one. (I used to live with her and trust her to send it back before you all jump down my throat.) I'm so glad not to have my ellery queen tapes all floating around anymore. I was never sure what to do with the tapes when I was done with them because they were 4 track but I hated throwing them out. Otherwise I would give them to goodwill so others could listen, but how many people would have a 4 track player. This makes much less waist imo.
yes, but can I use my braillenote to do that?
i don't know.
There's a website called bardtalk.com where you might be able to get the answer to your question about using your Braillenote. Also an email list at bardtalk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
NLS is cool, I've always liked Web Braille, and love getting the Braille Book Review so I can find books I normally wouldn't have heard of. I did sign up with Bard, but don't use it much as I'm really not a fan of audio books.
wait. I thought you were always supposed to return tapes after you listened to them. that's why there was a card that you could turn over with the return address on it. You mean to tell me I actually could've kept some tapes? I wonder if I can order some and if they'll let me keep them? Of course, I'd ask first, but am curious. I'll be honest. Several years ago, someone from there offered to give me some of the records they used before they switched to tapes. Sadly, I had to refuse because I didn't have the room. I still think about that and get upset because I'm sure such a wonderful offer won't be made again. I adore my original APH recorder, the one with the medal handle on it. I went through hell to get it back in high school because, even then, they were hard to get. But one of the little spindles, the thing that turns the tapes, came off and now I can't use it. I'm not even sure if APH will fix it, even though it's such a minor problem. do you think the NLS will loan me one of their players so that I could listen to the wonderful magazines that I get from them?
no just the magazines you can keep not the books. Sorry for the miss understanding. i got EQMM AND TALKING BOOK TOPICS and I used to get young adult magazine of the month.
Love the new digital players. There's nothing I don't like about them. Downloading from the BARD site is easy and love that I can get a book whenever I want to. Love the sleep timer on the player, its furability and portability. Stopped getting magazines years ago because did not read them in a timely manner. Now I will download one occasionally just for reading texture. I still read the tapes from time to time but preference would be the cartridge. Also like that the blank cartridges are not really expensive to buy. You can get them from Perkins School for the Blind or from APH.
I'm signed up but I still get tapes since not all the books I want are available digitally yet.
I wonder how long its going to take to totally switch over.
You can download the files with your BN if they're small enough to fit on the flashdisk. Although why you'd want to do that I'm not sure. You will not be able to play them on your bn though, You'd have to copy the zip file to some external media thatyou can then play on the NLS player. I wonder if they'll ever ship them to patrons in MI? I know people out here in CO are starting to get them, so maybe I should switch my service to out here. I'm glad I have a VR Stream.
Why not simply download them with the BrailleNote and put them on a compact flash card. I'm not sure how many b it can handle, but I know I at least was about to use a 2gb card on it. I've got a 4gb one so will have to try it and see if it works with the BN.
Scott, you can already get a digital talking book player in MI. I got mine only recently. And frankly, I prefer using a flash drive to download books onto, rather than buying cartrages. I like (with the bookshelf feature on the players after the latest firmware upgrade) being able to have about 20 books on my flash drive down the road, so that I can be able to listen to them at my convenience without having the need to worrya bout returning anything to the library or making myself rush through reading a book.
To those of you who are wondering about why you haven't been able to find the bookshelf feature, unfortunately the guide hasn't yet been updated to talk about it. But the way to access your bookshelf if you have more than one book on the flash drive is to hold down the play button while your player is on and the flash drive plugged in. Then you can navigate through all the books you have by using next or previous, rewind or fast forward. find the book you want to play, and press play again.
Yes, it's true. there's no longer the limit of one book per cartrage, or one book for flash drive, if you've got the memory for them.
thats awesum!!!!!!!
and, KC8PNL, CAN YOU GET BACK TO ME ON THAT Please.
I tried to download to a thumb drive and it said, "failed to download file".
I don't see why you just don't download the files on to your pC instead of the BN. Unless you don't have one?
Good, they're finally distributing the player in Oakland County. It's about time. Also, cool on the flash drive. Does it require that you have the same folder structure as in the VR Stream? You know $vr books for books and so forht?
hahaha no, don't have one.
but, just found out that the school will let me use there's.
so, I'm happy now!!!!!