Marg, If you have version 5.0 running on your BrailleNote, then go ahead and download the .zip file, as long as its size does not exceed the remaining free space in your Keysoft Systems Disk (but you would hardly encounter such a zip file from those two sites). Once saved in your BrailleNote or a storage card, press F from the Main Menu and type R for the Rename File option. Select the drive and folder containing the zip file, hit ENTER on the said file, and rename it with a .bks extension. If you wish to retain the name of the file, then just press SPACE with dots 4-6 (READ with SEMICOLON) and type .bks (on the BT, the period is dots 4-6, computer Braille). If you wish to change the name as well, just remember that you should be typing in computer Braille. Hit ENTER when you're done typing the new file name with .bks extension, and type Y to confirm that you wish to change the extension.
To unzip the file, enter Keybook by pressing ENTER with BACKSPACE with B (FUNCTION with 9), select the drive and folder containing the .bks file, and hit ENTER on it. You will be asked for the destination of the unpacked Bookshare book. Note that the BrailleNote sees .bks files as Bookshare files. Select the drive and folder where you wish to place the unzipped file. Next, you will be asked for your password, ignore that by hitting ENTER without typing anything. You will hear progress beeps if speech is turned ON or ON REQUEST as the file is being unpacked. Finally, you are asked if you wish to delete the original .bks file. I recommend that you type N for no, to spare you from having to download it again if something wrong happens. You can erase that one in the File Manager when you're absolutely sure that the unpacked file/s are OK. Finally, Keybook will open the file for you. Since these files are in formats foreign to Keyword, you will be asked if you wish to review the documents. Type Y for yes, or if you wish to accept the settings for the already formatted file, then just hit ENTER because N for no is the default. If you do not wish to open the unpacked file, then press SPACE with dots 1-2-3-4-5-6 (Menu key) to return to the Main Menu. Note that if there are more than one file in the .zip file, the first one in the archive will be opened by Keybook first. Also, if you get this error message: "Cannot unpack Bookshare book, error code 202", then move the .bks file to the root directory of the storage card it is in, if it's not yet there, and try again. If that still doesn't work, move the .bks file into the Flash Disk of the BrailleNote and try once more. Depending on how the files were zipped, this work-around may not work, but from experience with Gutenberg (and Braille.org) zip files, all are zipped with normal compression and should unpack just fine on your BN. Any problems you will experience following the instructions above on other .zip files should be understood by keeping in mind that this work-around is not really intended to be part of version 5 when PDI came out with this upgrade, but was only discovered by a BrailleNote user, Aman Singer. Hopefully, we will have a full-blown zip/unzip utility on the BN in future Keysoft versions. HTH, Roselle >----- QUOTED MESSAGE ----- >Sent by: Marg Langham <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hello all, >Following Debbie's question re books which can be downloaded by non-US >BrailleNote users, I have visited one of the sites suggested by Jonnathan. I >found a book I wanted to try. The files have a "zip" extension. Can these be >downloaded straight to the BN? I thought that files with "zip" extensions had >to go through some special program on a regular PC. >Thanks in advance for any help out there. >Marg
