I have had good luck using iTunes to transfer books. You're right, you might have to restart BARD to have it show the books. I haven't had any issues authorizing books to play.
Bob Hill On Oct 13, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can also use iTunes to transfer books to your phone. I haven't done it > myself yet, but a few different people have posted instructions to the list. > You may run into the same problem though, where you won't be able to > authorize those books if your phone can't get to the authorization servers > for the mobile app. > > For example, Russ Kiehne posted these instructions to the list: > > Doing some research, I found the following, hope it helps: > Loading books into the BARDmobile app > > The BARDmobile app is able to play any DAISY/NISO 2005 formatted book. To > load the > books into the iOS device for playback use the following instructions. > 1. If not in a ZIP archive format. You should compress the directory holding > the books > files into a ZIP file. > 2. Connect the iOS device to your computer with a USB cable. > 3. Open the iTunes application and select the iOS device button at the right > of the > main window. > 4. select the "Apps" radio button on the main screen. > 5. At the bottom of the Apps screen is a section titled "File Sharing" with a > column > list of apps. One of those will be the BARDmobile app select it. > 6. Press the "Add…" button located in the bottom right of the screen. This > will give > you a dialog to select the ZIP file from step one. The book will then be > added to > the app. You may need to restart BARDmobile to see the new book. > NOTE: > At this time the BARDmobile app will only play DAISY/NISO 2005 books. Other > DAISY > formats such as DAISY 2.02 and ePub 3 will simply fail to load. > > > On 10/13/2013 06:24 AM, Thom Spittle wrote: >> If you have dropbox, you shold be able to transfer it to the phone. Keep it >> as a zip file. Go to the file via dropbox. Once loaded, you can export to >> bard mobile. >> The only catch is authenticating the book with bard. If their system is >> down, it may not authenticate it. >> >> HTH, >> Thom >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] >>> On Behalf Of Dawn Petty >>> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:06 AM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Interesting dellema with the bard ap. >>> >>> I am also experiencing this. I tried to add the book push by safire. >> when I go >>> to my wish list it says zero itims but if I go back to the book it gives >> me a >>> remove from wish list link. I am able to download it on to my pc though. >> is >>> there any way to get it to the phone? >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jenifer Barr >>> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:32 AM >>> 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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