alex, this helped, and I was able to open the file.  How can I associate all 
.bks files with the unarchiver?  I have hundreds of books and would hate to 
have to go through and change them all individually.  I think I saw something 
about this in System Preferences but I don't remember where.

Tanks.

Harry

On Aug 11, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> They are zip files. Either rename them with the .zip extension, or
> associate them with apple's unarchiver tool (or whatever you use). You
> can tell Bookshare to always download zip files instead of bks2 files
> in your preferences (on the website).
> 
> On 8/11/12, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Interestingly, when I moved all of my Booksahre files from my PC to my Mac
>> by copying them to an SD Card (or maybe they were always this way from
>> opening them in Kurzweil), but in any case, all I see are files with a .bks
>> extension.  Kurzweil would open them fine, but I'm not sure how to open them
>> at this point.  Thoughts are welcome.  Someone can feel free to e-mail me
>> off list as this is no longer a Voicevoer issue.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Harry
>> 
>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is how I do it as well and I am perfectly content.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 10/08/2012, at 2:55 PM, Greg Aikens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just
>>>> opening the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO.  Maybe I'm still
>>>> in the dark ages.  If others have better solutions, please enlighten me.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Greg
>>>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Harry Hogue <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't have the money to upgrade my VMWare Fusion at the moment,
>>>>> otherwise I would read my Bookshare books through Kurzweil 1000, like
>>>>> normal.  I think a few of you said you read your Bookshare books on the
>>>>> Mac, and I was wondering how you did this?  The one solution I saw
>>>>> mentioned on bookshare.org said that the Mac software wasn't recommended
>>>>> to be sued with screen-readers, or something.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Help is appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Harry
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