The thing I don't understand is why do people want the capability of
the BookSense reading NLS cartridges. It is extremely simple to create
a NLS bard account and download books. This eliminates the need to
have the local library send a BookSense user cartridges. If a
accessory is created for the BookSense to play cartridges it will cost
extra and take time. The accessory that plays cartridges on the Victor
is about $50. Are you really willing to pay that much when or if you
really want to use those cartridges you can play them with the new NLS
player that retails for the price of free. Personally I rather HIMS
and GW devote their full atention to fixing bugs in the firmware and
adding new features and enhancements rather than working on something
that is not at all in my opinion necessary.
On 3/13/10, Rod Gowen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Russ,
>
> That would, indeed, be nice, but, the folks at HIMS have not deemed it
> necessary to give us (Book Sense users) the same capability that the
> Stream
> users were given, that being the ability to press one key and have the
> book
> transferred to the Daisy/NLS folder on the SD card.
>
> I, for one, would not use this function, as it is much too slow when I
> can
> easily transfer it using the computer in a matter of seconds instead
> of
> minutes using the method that the Stream uses.
>
> Take care,
>
> Rod
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:12 AM
> Subject: [GW-Booksense] Re: NLS Cartridges on the Book Sense
>
>
>>I thought that would be the case. Let me give you an example where
>>this is
>>
>>useful. I have some friends with slow internet connections. They
>>could
>>connect the cartridge to the booksense and transfer it for later
>>blayback.
>>I know some people who do this with the victor reader stream.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:54 AM
>> Subject: 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
>>>>
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