Hi Rachel,
It sounds like you are getting many different ways of approaching
downloading books from NLS BARD. I'll add a few comments that I hope help.
I'm using Lyon and Safari. I have the Safari preference setting under General
set to open safe files after downloading. This means the file is unzipped
automatically so I have the book waiting for me and ready to go in my downloads
folder. I don't generally worry about the download status but If I want to
check it you can go to the downloads list and interack with the group
associated with the download and the information is there.
Once the book is downloaded I simply either copy it to the NLS cartridge I
purchased from American Printing House For the Blind and it works just like a
NLS book. Only I fit many books onto the single cartridge. To access the
multiple books just hold down the play button on the NLS machine and it will
open the bookshelf.
To copy to the cartridge you will need a USB extender cable also sold
at the American Printing House for the Blind.
If I'm using the Victor reader stream then I copy the folder from my Mac to the
book shelf folder on the SD card and it works fine.
If you don't have a NLS cartridge for the NLS player a thumb drive will work
the same way.
Hope this helps. I find the process quick and easy on the Mac.
Best.
eRic Caron
On Jun 30, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've had the mac for a month and a half and absolutely love it thus far. I
> was recently presented with a challenge when downloading bard books. Is there
> some sort of progress indicator I could somehow receive so I know when it has
> finished downloading in Safari? And beyond that, what is the best way to
> extract the zip contents of the folder? Wehn I use the default program on the
> mac, or even iZip, it doesn't extract anything useful and i get a folder with
> a .zip.CPGZ extension. I ended up using windows through a virtual machine to
> get the book downloaded and extracted as their was progress indicator's
> given, and I was able to successfully extract the folder contents then put it
> onto a supported device.
> Help with this would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Rachel
>
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