Hi,

Yes, the BARD app can read any BRF file, so you can put Bookshare BRF files in 
dropbox and load them into BARD Mobile to read.

Best,
Anna



On Sep 24, 2013, at 9:57 PM, "Brent Harding" <br...@hostany.net> wrote:

> Can one use dropbox to get bookshare .brf's in to in turn read with the 
> braille display? I tried doing the old resave the xml in firefox trick and 
> use calibre commandline to make Epub, but I don't like the way Ibooks 
> hyphenates words across even page lines at times.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Kiehne" <russ94...@gmail.com>
> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 7:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Bard app and books from OpenLibrary
> 
> 
>> And the books from open library aren't audio books.  The bard app has no tts 
>> to read them.
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Woody Anna Dresner
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:56 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Bard app and books from OpenLibrary
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm sure those books won't play with the BARD app. When you download a book 
>> from BARD, the final step bARD Mobile takes is to download an authorization 
>> key for that book. Since Open Library doesn't have these keys, it can't give 
>> them to BARD Mobile, so there's no way for BARD Mobile to decrypt the books.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Anna
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 5:38 AM, "Aman Singer" <aman.sin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, all.
>>> As I'm sure most know, the internet archive, through its
>>> openlibrary.org site, provides a significant number of books for free
>>> download. Most are out of copyright, but quite a large number, several
>>> hundred thousand, I think, are still in copyright. These are Daisy books
>>> specifically designed for accessibility and are encrypted using the Library
>>> Of Congress encryption system, the same system used to encrypt books which
>>> are downloaded from BARD. I'm wondering if the newly released BARD app can
>>> read these books. Has anyone tried these books, if I may ask, and what have
>>> the results been?
>>> Thanks.
>>> Aman
>>> 
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