Thank you for the official update! Now for the major question: you addressed book unpacking in your announcement, but you said nothing of the larger concern, that of downloading the books. Will keyweb be updated to support whatever new type of downloading Bookshare has started using? It is not much good to be able to unpack books if we cannot get them in the first place on the bn. I look forward to the announcement you said would be either this week or in the next few weeks as I assume it will be announcing ks8, not a patch (if it were a patch then classic bn users would not be left in the lurch on this). Thanks again for speaking up as an HW member; we all appreciate it.
Have a great day, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Sloane" <[email protected]> To: "braillenote" <[email protected]>; "bnannounce" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:53 PM Subject: [Braillenote] BookShare Access As you are all aware from recent posts to the BrailleNote List, BookShare is migrating their library to a new Web site. As part of the changes, they are now supporting a more general file encryption format for their compressed books. The internal format of the books remain the same. The only difference is the way they zip the files for download. The new format is .bks2 or .zip. The new BookShare site is now launched, but Bookshare's old site will remain up for some months until manufacturers finalize their transition. During the transition period Braillenote users with version 7.5 or older should be able to access their service as usual. We will provide additional information later this week. People may use the new BookShare site from their PC and unpack the files in the PC. The unpacked books can then be read in the BrailleNote as usual. Support for the new BookShare bks2 or .zip books will be included in the next KeySoft release. This upgrade is for mPower and PK machines. Support for the new BookShare unpack will not be provided for the Classic machines. As previously advised, KeySoft 7.5 was the last release for these units. Classic users with version 7.5 will be able to read any of the new BookShare books. However, the new book un-packing would need to be done in the PC. If you are a BrailleNote user and you require assistance to access the old BookShare site during the transition period, we would ask that you direct your support requests to [email protected] and our US based technical support team will attend to your query. We will provide further information on the next KeySoft release in the coming weeks. Thank you. ________________ Maurice Sloane HumanWare NZ Direct Dial +64 3 940 2223 Mobile: +64 21 528 374 Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Website: www.humanware.com ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.6/1888 - Release Date: 1/12/2009 7:04 AM ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
