It may not be obvious, but some machines did go out with versions of the
firmware that did not support the bookshelf feature. One can update the
firmware
themselves, though. This might explain why there seem sometimes to be
different versions of answers.
Best regards,
Steve Jacobson
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:43:12 -0800, Rod Gowen wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>Then you understand it incorrectly!
>Both the advanced and the Standard player have the Book Shelf with firmware
>V2.1.0 and up.
>I can definitely attest to this fact as I recieved the Standard player first
>and exchanged it for the Advanced model and they would both go into Book
>Shelf mode when you hold down the play key for a few seconds.
>The firmware is exactly the same for both models.
>Rod
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Hill" <[email protected]>
>To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
>Cc: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] NLS cartridges
>As I understand it, this bookshelf ability is contained on the advanced NLS
>player, not the standard one.
>Bob Hill
>On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote:
>> The nls player has a bookshelf to allow you to access more than one book
>> on an nls cartridge.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Weiss" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] NLS cartridges
>>
>>
>>> The cable for the nls cartridges is available from
>>> Independent living Aids for about $5 plus shipping.
>>> I got one of these, and it allows you to copy from the pc to the
>>> cartridge.
>>> An interesting thing that I found with the NLS player--although the NLS
>>> cartridges come with the files in the root directory, You can download an
>>> NLS book to a blank cartridge and leave it in its own directory. It
>>> seems that when using the NLS player though, you can only access one such
>>> book per cartridge.
>>> Jeff Weiss
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "blind-hams" <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:51 PM
>>> Subject: [GW-Booksense] NLS cartridges
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just received two blank cartridges for the NLS player and I've tried
>>>> all the cables that went with my BookSense and BrailleSense Plus, an
>>>> none of them seem to fit. I understood from the Bardtalk web site that
>>>> any cable would work. What cables have any of you used or what adapters
>>>> did you use to get the usb cable to work? How did you download books to
>>>> the cartridge from the PC?
>>>>
>>>> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
>>>>
>>>> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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