Diane, I never thought of just reading the XML file. What a nice thing it is to have a list.
The reason I mentioned this here rather than adding a comment to BookShare is that I am not sure it is a BookShare problem. Since other players play the book, the old Bookport for example, and since the XML file reads all right, it is possible it's a BookSense thing. Thanks for the advice on playing the XML file directly. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:43:18 -0700, Dianne B. Phelps wrote: >Steve, >I have had that Book Share issue as well and correct it by extracting the >XML file and placing it into the documents folder and reading from there. >You may not have all of the DAISY mark-ups you are used to having, but it >will read without all that repeating. >You should let them know about this issue, however by going on the web site, >calling up the book. Click the title link of the book which brings up >another page of information on the book including a long synopsis, quality >ratings, etc. Somewhere on that page is a quality control or problem link. >Click on that and fill out the form, and they will look into the situation >for you. >I am usually too impatient to wait fgor their correction and use the XML >file so I can just read the book, but they need to kjnow which books have >this problem. I don't know what causes this phenomenon, but it is >frustrating. >Dianne >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Jacobson [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:57 PM >To: gw booksense List >Subject: [GW-Booksense] A Bit of Strangeness >Hi, >Recently, I downloaded the daisy version of Lincoln by Gore Vidal from >BookShare. What I found was that at most page breaks, text was repeated. >Sometimes >only a few words were repeated but sometimes a paragraph or more was >repeated. My first assumption was that there may have been a scanning >problem, but >when I saw the book was rated to be in excellent quality, I did further >investigation. I found that the "BRF" version of the same book read fine on >the >BookSense, that the daisy version worked fine on another daisy player, and >finally, I could not see any repeated text when I spot checked a few pages >when >looking in the XML file. Is this a known problem, and if not, how can I >report it? >Second, I have had trouble from time to time when unplugging the AC adapter >and then unplugging headphones with the BookSense not turning on when I >tried to power up later. I have resorted to doing a reset when this >happens. I discovered quite by accident today that if I plug the headphones >back in, the >BookSense suddenly turns on. It is as though it could not switch to the >speaker when turned off and had to wait for the headphones to be present >before it >could continue. If one runs into this and doesn't want to reset, trying to >get things going by plugging in the headphones again is worth a try. I >suspect that >unplugging the AC adapter and then the headphones causes the AC Adapter >Disconnected message to not being completed but I don't know for sure. >Best regards, >Steve Jacobson >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 gw- [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
