Hi Jose,
When you explore Web-Braille, you'll find that the main page is pretty
straightforward, and that there are links that point to Braille Book Review,
the online catalog, a list of titles organized alphabetically by author,
Braille Music, Braille Magazines, and so on. It's not terribly difficult to
get around. However, there are some things to be aware of. There are
several ways to search the online catalog, for example. My personal
preference is to use the Voyager interface and choose the option for Guided
Search. That option lets you search the records in the database by title,
author, and keyword. It lets you do Boolean searches if you're so inclined,
for fine-tuning your search if you want to.
The Braille Book Review section contains electronic versions of Braille Book
review, and it's my personal fave, as that's where I find the mose
recently-added books. Each issue is in text format or HTML. You'll want the
HTML version for online browsing. Issues are added every two months. If
you're familiar with the hardcopy Braille version, you'll notice that the
electronic versions correspond exactly, being broken down into sections for
adult nonfiction, adult fiction, children's nonfiction, children's fiction
and so on. Pick the issue that you want and click on that link, then go to
the desired section.
The Lists section is organized alphabetically by author, as I already
mentioned. Pick the letter that corresponds to the author that you want, as
in D for De Mille, G for Grisham, K for King, et cetera. Click and browse.
One thing that is annoying about the lists and Braille Book Review is that
if you space or tab around from link to link in the book listings, you won't
see or hear any titles spoken. So, what I do is just scroll through, or
better yet, if I'm looking for some specific title, I'll do a text search on
the page. That usually works.
Some people like to download directly to the Braille Note or Voice Note. I,
personally, like to download to the PC and transfer the volumes over,
because I'd probably back up the volumes to my PC anyway. Different strokes
for different folks. When I find a book that I want and am going to
download it to my PC, I go to each volume's link, then right-click using the
numpad-star key, second one over from the num lock. That brings up a
context menu. Arrow down to "save target as..." and press enter. You'll
get the Save As dialog and be prompted for a filename. By default, each
volume has the BR book number with some sort of suffix. I always ditch the
default filename in favor of a more meaningful name such as the actual book
title or an abbreviated version, followed by the volume number, as in The
Lion's game1, the lion's game2, and so on. Leave the .brf extension alone.
If your PC doesn't know what to do with .brf extensions, Windows will append
a .txt extension when you download the file, which is another annoyance.
You'll have to tell Windows what kind of file that is, and if you know how
to do that in the Filetypes tab under Folder Options, you're in business.
Once that's done, though, you won't have to worry about it.
Rather than making this post too long and boring everybody to tears, I'll
leave it at that and move on. Write back if you want additional details.
Tom
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