It's free and you're entitled to it. It's just another entertainment and
educational piece of technology to add to your electronic arsinal. (Smilie!)
On Apr 10, 2010, at 11:36 PM, olivia norman wrote:
> Thanks so much! I don't have much experience with NLS, though I m a member.
> I just could
I had no idea they were free! Wow, I'll get on it.
Olivia
On Apr 10, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
> The NLS players are pretty cool. They are about the size of a hard backed
> book, run for 35 hours on a single charge, and have a kick butt speaker on
> them. If you want to listen
Thanks so much! I don't have much experience with NLS, though I m a member. I
just couldn't justify buying an adaptive player and an iPad, so I opted for the
iPad because it's good mainstream technology, and because it affords me more
productivity options for my money.
Olivia
On Apr 10, 2010, a
If you get one that will fit, you can stick a regular flash drive into the NLS
player where the cartridges go. Mine is a little short though, so I have to
insert a butter knife under it and gently pry up when I want to get it out,
because there isn't enough sticking out of the cartridge compart
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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 5:28 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Downloading nls books
If you are an NLS patron, call and request a digital player. You can use
your Mac to download the material which you can then tra
If you are an NLS patron, call and request a digital player. You can use your
Mac to download the material which you can then transfer to a thumb drive to
play in the digital player. The NLS players are not as small as the VRS or the
Book Sense, but the NLS players do sound great without headp
The NLS players are pretty cool. They are about the size of a hard backed
book, run for 35 hours on a single charge, and have a kick butt speaker on
them. If you want to listen while you do things around the room, you can turn
it up loud and it sounds great. You download the books to your com
This is really odd. I am getting about 390 to 410 kb per sec on this
end. I don't know why you others are getting slower readings.
Anyway. yeah the nls downloads are slow. I do not know if it is the
fact that a bunch of people are downloading stuff at the same time or
if nls has restricted thei
sorry if this was already addressed. Yes the usb thumb / flash drives
show up in the finder just like any usb thing generally would unless it
is linked like the iphone or other device to a particular program.
I do not know about the cartridges. But I am assuming so because
basically all those ar
hmmm that is unusual. Maybe it was just an extremely high volume of
people downloading from nls. Or maybe your connection at the time was odd.
Hope it goes better next time. I can guarantee it isn't the mac.
At least I am pretty sure it isn't. Unless network settings got goofed
or something.
Je
m: Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Downloading nls books
>
> Hi. do you have the digital player from the library?
> Oops. are you a patron of nls? If you are you can get a digital player
>
Do the adapters show up in the finder? I am wondering what the advantages of
these books are if I have an iPad? I asume that the NLS players don't offer
it's portability and easy access to materials? As I said, I considered a
stream or something similar, but opted for the iPad instead for a nu
e the expression).
Thanks for any further thoughts.
Carolyn
- Original Message -
From: Jessica and Trish the Golden Dog
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: Downloading nls books
Hi. do you have the digital player from the li
You could call you state/local library and see if you are a patron. If
you are you can ask to have a digital advanced player sent to you.
You can either use a thumb drive in the player that it will not fuss
at. I hear the kingston datatravelers are good and have a 4 gig. cost
me 14 dollars.
Tha
Thanks so much! I thought about getting one of the specialized players, but
opted for the iPad instead (good choice for me) Do the library players work
with the mac? I have seen someone's player, but don't have one myself. I am
pretty sure I have an NLS membership, but will check.
Olivia
On Apr
Hi. do you have the digital player from the library?
Oops. are you a patron of nls? If you are you can get a digital player
form the library. Or if you have a booksense or victor reader stream
those will work too.
But no it wouldn't work just on your mac alone.
nlsbard.loc.gov is the web site u
How do you work with NLS books? I don't have a specialized player, just my mac
and iPad, so I am assuming that I won't be able to use them, correct?
Olivia
On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:42 AM, ch...@q.com wrote:
> Hi Mac Family:
> I'm finally downloading my first ever NLS talking book into "downloads" o
Hi Carolyn. Finally something I can help on or at least somewhat.
I download nls books all the time.
I have high speed here and it downloads at usually 396kb per second.
It depends really on your internet speed. But generally I think nls
bard also may have some kind of speed restriction as well.
Hi Mac Family:
I'm finally downloading my first ever NLS talking book into "downloads" on my
macbook Pro. The download speed is saying something like 39.something kb per
second. The downlad time appears to be nearly an hour, but the book is only a
13 hours long. This seems particularly slow.
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