National Library Service. R Q J ----- Original Message ----- From: "WENDY N DEWESSE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:30 PM Subject: Re: Downloading NLS Books
Could some one tell me what NLS books is? I'm only interested if we can download books from this site. Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:13 PM Subject: re: Downloading NLS Books > Hi Kris, > > The books are in contracted or grade 2 braille. That is why they read > like jiberish in your word processor. You have to use special software to > translate the books into regular text. There is some braille translation > software that will do this that is available through the nfb for free. > You can probably find it at their web site. The Kurzweil 1000 will also > translate these books. The Book Port will as well. > > good luck, > > Robert Carter > >> ----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Kristine Hickerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "pc-audio" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org >>Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:30:32 -0600 >>Subject: Downloading NLS Books > >>Hi All, > >>Well, I found the books I wanted from the NLS WebBraille catalog and >>downloaded several of them. > >>However, when I try to read them with my screenreader and braille display >>I >>get garbage. There will be a few recognizable words with lots of various >>symbols and number around them. You can't make any sense out of it and >>there's no way I could try to read a book this way. > >>I had this problem at first when I just tried to open them from the NLS >>website. So after reading the question and answer section I discovered >>how >>to set up a brf file and I elected to use wordpad. So now when I download >>they go to my documents file but when wordpad tries to open them they are >>a >>mess. > >>What have I done wrong. Are there other changes I need to make for these >>files to display in readable form? > >>Thanks so much. > >>Kris H. > > > > >>_______________________________________________ >>PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >>http://www.pc-audio.org > >>To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
