I don't know what would be more reliable and faster about using Google Chrome
for Audible instead of safari, but to each his/her own! You can even tab to the
download button once you find the book or if you know it's the top one just do
a vo-f to find download or use the rotor. Lots of options!
As for the download manager, I am very happy not to have one, having had one on
Windows, but again, to each his/her own! The only problem I ever have is that
right now I don't have a Windows machine and certain players have to be
activated online and Audible has never made provision for doing this other than
on Windows. But this doesn't happen often.
I don't have to go to Downloads and open the book once i download it. I have
safari preferences set to allow "safe" files to be opened and so the book opens
right in iTunes. So once the book is opened and copied into my iTunes library,
I can either delete it from Downloads or move it to a special place where I
keep all my Audible books besides in my iTunes folder.
Again, to each his/her own! This is just the way I do it. I also don't bother
with going to the "accessible" site.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
"This I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord
never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
> On Oct 24, 2014, at 4:54 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Nick,
>
> This sounds like an awfully convoluted way to download Audible books. I just
> click the link to my library, then press VO-Cmd-t to get to the table. I then
> interact with the table and navigate right until I find first the name of the
> book, then much further right, the download link. I just interact and press
> VO-Space. Cmd-Option-l takes me to the downloads window.
>
> Once the book is downloaded, I go to my Downloads folder and open it with
> Cmd-o and it opens in iTunes. Safari works just fine for me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>> On 24 Oct 2014, at 09:10, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> There is no Audible download manager or any other specific app for
>> downloading Audible books on the Mac.
>> You cannot download Audible books with iTunes. You can buy Audible books
>> with iTunes, though the prices are much more expensive and you cannot use
>> your Audible membership credits, and you can play Audible books with iTunes.
>> But you cannot download books from your Audible account using iTunes.
>> To download Audible books, take the following steps. It's possible to do
>> this with Safari, but I find Google Chrome works best (it's more reliable
>> and faster). also, I advise turning on "Group items within when navigating
>> tables" in the navigation tab of the web pane of VoiceOver Utility.
>> Open Google Chrome, browse to the Audible website and activate the link to
>> go to your library.
>> Navigate to the table containing your books using option-control-command-t
>> (several times, it will be the last table on the page).
>> Interact with the babe, navigate to the title column, and then navigate down
>> the column until you get to the book you wish to download.
>> Use VO-command-l to navigate by link. You'll hit all the links for rating
>> the book (e.g. link 1, link 2, link 3, etcetera). These are repeated several
>> times.
>> Once you hear the "Rate this book" link, or something to that effect, use
>> the tab key to navigate. You will here the name of the audiobook (or, if it
>> is a multi part book, the particular part) followed, once you press tab
>> again, by a download link.
>> Simply press return on the download link. After a few seconds, a dialog box
>> will appear asking you to save the file.
>> Just press return again to save the file to the default location.
>> Downloading will begin.
>>
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