Hi Linda, If you want to see the progress, press the command to queery the cursor position. On the bt keyboard, it is wh-chord. I can't remember the qwerty command right now. It is small in comparison to going through volumes of hard copy, but it is worth the tradeoff in terms of portability. If you look in the sonopsis of the books from bookshare, you will see that most of them say excellent, only a few errors. There are some scanner errors that crop up. If I want an error-free book, I check to see if it is available on the NLS web site. However, I have seen some minor errors in their books.
When you are done reading the book, the easiest way to get rid of it is to go to the book reader like you are going to open the book. Press enter on the folder where you saved your book, like my books. Space down to the bookname and press backspace with c if on the bt or control c if on the qt model. BrailleNote will prompt erase bookname sure? and you press y for yes. You are returned to the list of books with the next one in the list highlighted. Yawl correct me on these qt commands if I am missing them. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Linda Lupaczyk Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:13 PM To: Humanware Subject: [Braillenote] I finally did it! Hell, and another big thank you to all of you who tried to help when I was having trouble downloading books from bookshare. I have finally been able to get books into my Braillenote and have been enjoying reading during down times at work. I have noticed some problems with some of the Braille, and I'm not sure if this is computer Braille I'm not familiar with or Braille errors. The first book I tried to read "and then there was light", the story of a blind man who was a part of the French resistance during WW2 had a lot of errors in it. Since this was my first experience reading a downloaded book, however, I decided to reserve judgment until I read something else to compare it with. I am now reading "the cross and the scalpel", and the Braille is much better in that book. There are some mistakes I have been able to figure out because I learned to read print with an optacon, and that helped me to work some things out. For instance, most of the time, when the word "soon" comes up, it is brailled as #500l. It took me a while to figure that one out, and there are still some that I can't quite make out. Is this due to scanner errors? Being a Braille reader, I have notice that I miss the feeling of making progress one gets from reading from the top of the page to the bottom, or from turning pages and seeing them build. Maybe that sounds kind of crazy, but I did notice a feeling of not going anywhere like riding on a stationary bike rather than on a two-wheeler or a tandem where you can measure the progress in miles and feel the speed of your progress. Is that crazy, or did any of you feel the same when you started reading books using a Braille display? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the reading and am going to continue, but I have noticed this adjustment. Now for one more question -- When I finish the book, and don't want to keep it in my Braillenote anymore, how can I delete it? I was going to look through the manual to see if I could find directions for purging a book from the system but I wanted to read more than I wanted to do that this afternoon. Thank you all again for your help. Linda ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
