You mean when I load books on the SD card, or on my thumb drive, I have to have it in a hard-coded directory structure? That is limiting. But I guess I could get used to it.
Now when my booksense wasn't working yesterday, it listed 5 directories under daisy, not just the 4. What exactly does the booksense expect when scanning a thumb drive? and is that documented in the manual? (I'm still reading the manual.) Happy reading. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]> To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:54 AM Subject: [GW-Booksense] NLS Cartridges on the Book Sense Hi Russ and all, To put the question of whether or not the Book Sense would play a book on an NLS cartridge from the regional library to the test, I put it to a test a little while ago. First, if you only have the short cable that you get with the Book Sense, you are *NOT* going to attach the cartridge to the Book Sense! The end of the cable into which you would insert a flash drive will not accept the NLS cartridges due to the fact that, on the cartridge, the USB plug is surrounded by part of the cartridge as a sort of shield, and the end of the cable is too fat to slide into the space surrounding the USB plug on the cartridge. I attached an extension cable to the cartridge and then plugged that into the short cable and then into the Book Sense. When I turned on my Book Sense, it acted as though I had just plugged in a flash drive and gave me the door bell sound. When I switched over to the flash drive by holding the zero key down, it appeared as though I were actually looking at a flash drive and could actually move through the various modes and folders that the Book Sense creates for us on media. However, the message "No List" was given upon opening any of the folders. Nowhere did I hear that I could play the book that was on the cartridge! The Book Sense could not and cannot see such books as they are on the root of the cartridge and not in the Daisy/NLS folder! Therefore the one true answer to the question "Can you play NLS cartridges on the Book Sense?", even if you wanted to do so, is "NO!" I really see no point in doing so in any case, as it is very easy to transfer the book from the cartridges to an SD card using the computer! Rod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] first impressions of the Bookport Plus > Have you actually connected an nls cartridge from your regional library to > the booksense and it played? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bud dy Brannan" <[email protected]> > To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 10:54 AM > Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] first impressions of the Bookport Plus > > > > On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: > >> Yes, I'm sure the booksense will not play nls cartridges. > > Yes it will, given the correct USB cable. It will not, however, copy them > over to its internal flash or > SD card. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
