I can echo Jonathan's experience of TNAUK - it is an excellent service. It's website is www.tnauk.org.uk. It's really very liberating being able to read a newspaper on the braille note and they also have a huge range of magazines too from gardening to computing. Tnauk telephone number is +44 (0)1435 862737.
Gary O'Donoghue, BBC Political Correspondent Tel: +44 (0)207 9736007 Mob: 07802 232212 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: 23 May 2004 14:12 To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] ~public~ns ~f #~~tnauk Hi John. I am an avid TNAUK user and use the BrailleNote to read newspapers and magazines from TNAUK without any interaction with the PC at all. In terms of their electronic service, there are two ways you can obtain the material. You can either ask TNAUK to e-mail it to you, or you can get password protected access to their BBS web site and download them from there. In either case, you will receive the files with a .zip extension. Rename the file so that it has a .bks extension, then go to the book reader and open the file. You will find that the file is unzipped for you and ready to read. I personally also find that it is best to then rename the actual unzipped file to have a .txt extension. Although these are ASCII files, TNAUK for some reason gives them a .doc extension, and Windows and the BrailleNote can often try and treat them as MS Word files. One of the many great things about TNAUK is that their files are formatted extremely consistently. Each article is on a new page, so I use the BrailleNote to search for the new page character, and after doing this once, can skip between articles simply by pressing space with N. Hope this helps. Jonathan Mosen BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager Pulse Data International Ltd DDI: +64-3-373-6192 Fax: +64-3-384 4933 Mobile: +64-21 466 736 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: www.pulsedata.com john goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/05/2004 10:04 p.m. Please respond to Braillenote List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [Braillenote] ~public~ns ~f #~~tnauk Hail, Gary and all ... Do you receive your material from TNAUK on a PC and then transfer it to your BrailleNote, Gary? I only have a BrailleNote. Can I subscribe to the TNAUK service at a practical level, that being so? Could you (or someone) give me first-step-by-first-step directions how to make this work, please? I know this has just been covered for Gary, but I didn't understand. So that's how elementary any directions would need to be. Also, I may not have asked all the appropriate questions; so, if there's anything else anyone thinks I ought to know, I'd be grateful for that. Many thanks. 'Bye for now, John Goddard. ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.
