Hi, The issue where this needs doing manually is if you have RFBD books - the software won't copy them onto memory card, even though it is possible manually.
Andrew. > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 June 2004 18:26 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Portability using PCMCIA card > > Andrew, > > You were great in creating this response for me. Apologies > for never having > responded. I've sort of been moving on without the luxury of multiple > titles per CD at this point (many, many other pressing > projects with my > time!), but . . . > > I just figured out this morning (and it's quite likely I'm > just the last to > know!) that it's very simple to create multiple titles on the > _memory card_. > In other words: if I have five CD's with five books recorded > on them, I can > easily load them all onto my memory card. I'll work on the > multiple title > per CD thing later.... > > Neil > > ======================== > > Since the BookShare books are text only (i.e, they contain no audio > portions), they > will need converting to audio before you can read them on the > PTR1. One > myth about > the PTR1 is that it contains a text to speech unit, this is > untrue, what > actually > happened is that the prompts for the unit were recorded from a text to > speech system > which is commonly used in reading products. > > The steps for getting this done are as follows:- > > 1. Go into the PRS, and do the convertion to get the audio > version - this > will use > any existing SAPI synthesiser on the system. > 2. Save the book, you will end up with the files > discinfo.html and the > directory > containing the book. > 3. Now create a new book, and export the text to audio. You > will have the > discinfo.html file along with the two subdirectories for each book. > > You now need to go and edit the discinfo.html file to ensure that both > directories are > referenced, the best way to do this is to copy the lines that > reference the > books, > then ensure that they reference the correct directories. > Ensure you don't > specify any > local paths (eg g:/daisy/book1/ etc). Instead, just don't > specify any drive > letters, > and assume everything stems from the root. If you need an > example I can > sort this out. > > Now burn the discinfo.html file onto the CD to the root, and each book > directory also. > You will have a structure like this: > > / > /book1 > /book2 > /book3 > /discinfo.html > /book1/ > /book1/ncc.html > /book1/*.mp3 [...] > > There will also be .xml files in the book directories, these > are all the > relevant > indexes and should be left be. > > In short, PRS can't burn more than one book to a disk, so it > needs doing > manually in > the way I have described. > > If you need any more help please get back to the list. > Andrew. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Brooks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 25/05/2004 23:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New user > > Hi! > > I'm fairly new to the world of the visually impaired, and > equally new to > PTR1 > ownership, but . . . so far . . . the latter is far cooler > than the former > ;-) > > Quick question: I'm trying to create a single CD with > multiple books so > that--when I > travel--I don't need to carry a fat bag of discs. Is there a > way--either > using the > PRS software or otherwise--to create multiple titles when > downloading books > (currently, I'm pulling titles from Bookshare.org in DAISY > format)? If so, > can > somebody walk me through the process? > > I'd be grateful... > > Neil Brooks > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
