It's my understanding that the library will be putting updates on the book cartridges, so when new updates come out, your player will be updated when you place that cartridge into your player.
You can tell if you have the latest firmware by pressing the sleep key 10 times with no cartridge or USB flash drive in the machine. The latest firmware is 2.1.3. You can find a wealth of information at the BARD Talk web site at http://www.bardtalk.com/. -- Christopher chalt...@gmail.com -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Don Lorah Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:39 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Where do you download updates to your digital talking book player? My digital book player seems to update itself with the insertion of a library book. I have bookshelf. Do I need more?? Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "DJ DOCTOR P" <djdoct...@att.net> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:58 PM Subject: Re: Where do you download updates to your digital talking book player? High Randy, Below this message, are instructions on how to do this and a link for where to get the updates. My best regards. John. --- The Bookshelf Upgrade You might want to download several books or magazines to a flash drive and then listen to any of them in some random order. To do this, your player must contain a software upgrade that includes the ability to "bookshelf" books. Here are the steps needed to upgrade a library digital book player to the latest software: Obtain the latest software from the NLS web site: http://www.loc.gov/nls/DTBM/ . There appear on the web page two links. I suggest you try the first link. If this does not work, return to the page and download the second link. After you click the link from the web site and download the file to your computer, extract (unzip) this file onto a flash drive (thumb drive, etc.) so that the directory "upgrade" appears in the "root" directory of the drive. This procedure is exactly the same as you use to download a book. Turn on the player. Insert the flash drive containing the software into the USB port of the player. The player will announce "Upgrading your player's software." Wait until the upgrade is complete and the player restarts (about 10 seconds), then remove the flash drive. The upgrade will only occur if the player's version is older than the version of the software on the cartridge; reinserting the cartridge will not repeat the upgrade. You now can erase the files from the flash cartridge that you downloaded to undertake this upgrade and use the flash cartridge to download books and magazines. To employ the bookshelf feature, turn the player on. Press and hold the Play/Stop button until you hear the narrator announce the activation of the bookshelf feature. Continue to hold down the Play/Stop button and press either the FF or the RW arrow-shaped key to either side of the Play/Stop button. As you push and release these keys, the player will announce the next title on the flash drive. Once you get to the end of the titles saved on the drive, you must utilize the other direction key to toggle back through the titles. In other words, you cannot continue to use only the FF or the RW key to toggle through the titles in a circuit-type action. Release the Play/Stop button when you reach the item to which you desire to listen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Tijerina" <rtijeri...@satx.rr.com> To: <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 7:43 PM Subject: Where do you download updates to your digital talking book player? > Friends, I received my digital talking book player. it's a remarkable > piece of machinery. > I've never seen anything like it in my life. > I'm curious though where do you go to get updates for the machine? > i have a usb plug that I normally use to connect my stereo to the > computer. Can it be used? > or do I have to call the library to get whatever I need? To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
