At this moment, the BARD Mobile app, which I think is great, is pretty much non-functional for me. I suspect this is, of course, due to the U.S. government shutdown. The BARD site itself works fine for me in Safari, and I am able to download books using my PC. Beginning a couple of days ago, however, the app started saying I had no items in my Wish List even when I knew I did have some, and it was also telling me that there were 0 items in all of the Recently Added listings. If I left the app sitting there, it would eventually just say that the request timed out, and I could not access items. I could transfer and read Braile books fime via Dropbox or iTunes File Sharing and access them without a problem, and audiobooks I had transferred prior to Thursday or so were playing fine. However, in the last couple of days, I had tried transferring audiobooks via Dropbox or iTunes, since I could not download any with the app; I suspect the actual ZIP file transfer and unpack went without a problem, but when the app tried to obtain an authorization from NLS servers for the book, I was just told that the request timed out, and the books never appeared on my Bookshelf. I just tried deleting and reinstalling the app to see if that would solve my woes, and now, I cannot even log in to Bard. The app just tells me, of course, that the request has timed out. Hence, as I said, I cannot use it at all right now.
Just FYI if anyone else is also experiencing such issues... Regards, Maria -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 4:26 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Bard app is saying I have no wish list I also am quite happy with the app with two exceptions, it is next to impossible to use the subject listing, mine jumps all over the place and I resort to going back to the computer to send to my wish list. The second think I would like to see changed is I wish they would add a sleep button instead of me having to go to the timer to make it sort of work. I have gotten to the point of using Audible if I want to read in bed for a bit because it is so very easy to set the sleep timer inside that app. I guess it is a sort of picker for the author, title or subject listings but, inside the app it just seems to get stuck on animals or bounces everywhere but where I'd like. Thank goodness I have a computer. I have one book on my stream I am reading, one on the iPad mini, and two on the phone, not to mention stuff I have used in Kindle and Bookshare. Just depends on mood, time, or need as to what I choose to read. Would any of you who have been blind most of your lives have thought say 15 years ago that we would have so many choices? -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 10:58 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bard app is saying I have no wish list Well, I think this app is very good, especially for a 1.0 release. I haven't had any problems with my wish list getting populated, and my download speeds have been much better than experienced in the message below. Downloads speeds are also effected by quite a few things outside of an app's control. Remember too that the US government is shut down, through no fault of this app, so the servers are up and running but aren't being monitored. I wouldn't be surprised if they need some TLC occasionally to fix some performance issues, again not unlike any servers, private or public. I also don't think political opinions or anyone's opinions about the government are appropriate for this list. IMHO, criticism of the app should be based on the app itself and not one's opinion of the government. On 10/12/2013 12:49 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Richard, I would expect this behavior from this app. Is consistent > with the behavior the government it does nothing or very little at best. And it's very slow. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 12, 2013, at 12:39 PM, "Richard Turner" <richard.turne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I just opened the BARD app and went to my wish list. >> At first, it said empty list. >> I let it sit there. >> A little while later, probably 30 seconds or so, it said zero items. >> I still let it sit there. >> Within another 30 to 60 seconds, I have the three books I knew were >> on my wish list showing up. >> I decided to try downloading one. >> It first just flicked back to the wish list after I hit OK on down load. >> Then, a while later, it said downloading. >> >> It has sat on zero percent for about a minute now. >> >> It is five minutes later and it is up to 25 percent. >> If it doesn't down load, I'll write again, but I am going to go on >> the assumption that it is simply going to take a lot of patience to >> work with the wish list until the government is back up and running. >> >> Richard >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of Kathy Brandt >> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:56 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Cc: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: Bard app is saying I have no wish list >> >> I hope I haven't lost it completely, that it will come back when >> things get back to normal. >> >> >> >> On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:46 PM, "Sean Paul" <newsandtraf...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> I figured that was the case... But, wanted to make sure before I >> assumed something was broken, thanks much. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Baracco" <w...@socal.rr.com> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 16:35 >> Subject: Re: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >> >> >>> It may be up, but there may not be staff there to do updates, >>> maintenance, >> etc. Several Federal web sites will come up when you try to access >> them, but the links may not work, etc. This will become more >> noticable the longer the shutdown persists. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Mickey Quenzer >>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 1:18 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: RE: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >>> >>> Sounds to me to be that the web site is not really up. Isn't the >>> site >> shut >>> down because of the government fiasco? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >>> Behalf Of Sean Paul >>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:53 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >>> >>> I've done, says connection has timed out after a few minutes. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "SSEric" <sseri...@gmail.com> >>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 15:44 >>> Subject: RE: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >>> >>> >>>> I did this this morning and it took some time for the newly added >>>> books >> to >>>> show in my wish list. It took maybe 2 minutes? Try opening the app >>>> and going to the wish list and waiting for a bit. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf >>>> Of Jenifer Barr >>>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:32 PM >>>> To: viphone >>>> Subject: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >>>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> So, I added some books to my wishlist like I always do from the >>>> website on my computer. Before when I'd do this I'd go to the ap >>>> on my phone, into my wishlist and download them. But, now, when I >>>> go into the ap, they're not there. I know they've been added, but >>>> they're not there. I've closed the ap using the ap switcher... >>>> reopened it... but still nothing. 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