Thanks, Alex, that's helpful. I've enver used Terminal or thought of going
about renaming that way -- I'll loook it up.
Harry
On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Or you might use terminal to batch rename all the files to .zip. After
> all, they are really just zip files with the e
Or you might use terminal to batch rename all the files to .zip. After
all, they are really just zip files with the extension changed, so
maybe something like:
cd ~/books
rename *.bks *.zip
I don't know if the syntax is right, but that's the idea.
On 8/12/12, Christine Grassman wrote:
> I don't
I don't know whether this is only true of the newest additions to bookshare
(over the last year or so) but lately when I download bookshare books, no
unzipping is required. I just seek out the title and the .xml extension, and it
opens in Safari when I hit enter. Is no one else experiencing this
I simply would just remember where I had been reading and type a keyword or
two. What I would like to know now is how to associate .bks files with The
Unarchiver, as the checkbox to "Always open with this application," in "Other…"
and selecting the application does not hold, for some reason. D
One way to get around this is to set a web spot at the place you left off. I
haven't tried this under ML but in Lion it worked inconsistently and often I
would forget to set a web spot when I finished reading, but it is better than
nothing.
-Greg
On Aug 12, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Mary Otten wrot
Thanks, Harry. I was wondering if you used Safari. Seems to me that means you
can't pick up where you left off in a book, right? That would be a big
drawback, I would think. How do you work around that/
Mary
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Right, I forgot to mention that. As others have said, you can open the
.xml file found in the daisy books downloaded from bookshare in
Safari. You can then use heading navigation to move around the book,
depending on how it was marked up.
On 8/11/12, Harry Hogue wrote:
> I'll try the cmd+I comman
I'll try the cmd+I command, because going to "Other…" selecting the
application, and checking the box to "Always use this application nto open this
type of file" didn't work.
And Mary, when I open these files I use Safari to read them.
Harry
On Aug 11, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Jus
Just vo-shift-m on one of them and select open with. Now find the
program you want, vo-right to the checkbox about always using this
application, and check it. That should do it. If not, hit cmd-i on a
bks file and find the "opens with" popup. I might have the
instructions or wording a bit off - I'
Harry, once you get those bks files open on your Mac, what are you using to
read them?
Mary
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alex, this helped, and I was able to open the file. How can I associate all
.bks files with the unarchiver? I have hundreds of books and would hate to
have to go through and change them all individually. I think I saw something
about this in System Preferences but I don't remember where.
Tan
They are zip files. Either rename them with the .zip extension, or
associate them with apple's unarchiver tool (or whatever you use). You
can tell Bookshare to always download zip files instead of bks2 files
in your preferences (on the website).
On 8/11/12, Harry Hogue wrote:
> Interestingly, whe
Interestingly, when I moved all of my Booksahre files from my PC to my Mac by
copying them to an SD Card (or maybe they were always this way from opening
them in Kurzweil), but in any case, all I see are files with a .bks extension.
Kurzweil would open them fine, but I'm not sure how to open th
This is how I do it as well and I am perfectly content.
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On 10/08/2012, at 2:55 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
> Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just opening
> the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO. Maybe I'm still in the dark
> ages. If o
Wow -- I didn't thin Kathy would work because of copy-protected files and
specialized formats in particular. I'll give that a try.
Thanks.
Harry
On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
> Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just opening
> the xml file in
Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just opening
the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO. Maybe I'm still in the dark
ages. If others have better solutions, please enlighten me.
-Greg
On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Harry Hogue wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I don't
Hi, all,
I don't have the money to upgrade my VMWare Fusion at the moment, otherwise I
would read my Bookshare books through Kurzweil 1000, like normal. I think a
few of you said you read your Bookshare books on the Mac, and I was wondering
how you did this? The one solution I saw mentioned o
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