As Christopher said and using the instructions Russ posted, you can successfully transfer BARD books on your computer to your iDevice for playing with BARD Mobile using iTunes.
I don't know what the easiest steps are to do this with iTunes 12 since I'm still using iTunes 11. I suspect that the failure experienced by the original poster in this thread might have been due to the book not being in a zipped archive. The general steps she outlined sounded correct since it sounded as if she was on the Apps tab for her device and was on BARD mobile in the file sharing section which you must be in order to access the add to button. After that button is executed, you get a dialog where you can navigate to the files you want to add to the app, BARD mobile in this case. These must be zipped files as they were when originally downloaded from BARD. I know this works because I have one of the braille lessons from the hadley School which came to me on an NLS cartridge for playing on the NLS digital player. I wanted to use my iPhone for playing the lesson so I connected the cartridge to my computer and located the lesson files on it and zipped them into a single file. When I transferred this file to my iPhone using iTunes, it plays beautifully in BARD mobile. Hopefully others will have more success if they choose to transfer zipped BARD books this way and hopefully apple will make file transfers again more accessible with future iTunes versions. Alan Lemly Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Russ Kiehne <[email protected]> wrote: > > The following info probably has been changed since it was posted to the > bardtalk list: > > Loading books into the BARDmobile app > > The BARDmobile app is able to play any DAISY/NISO 2005 formatted book. To > load the > books into the iOS device for playback use the following instructions. > 1. If not in a ZIP archive format. You should compress the directory holding > the books > files into a ZIP file. > 2. Connect the iOS device to your computer with a USB cable. > 3. Open the iTunes application and select the iOS device button at the right > of the > main window. > 4. select the "Apps" radio button on the main screen. > 5. At the bottom of the Apps screen is a section titled "File Sharing" with a > column > list of apps. One of those will be the BARDmobile app select it. > 6. Press the "Add…" button located in the bottom right of the screen. This > will give > you a dialog to select the ZIP file from step one. The book will then be > added to > the app. You may need to restart BARDmobile to see the new book. > NOTE: > At this time the BARDmobile app will only play DAISY/NISO 2005 books. Other > DAISY > formats such as DAISY 2.02 and ePub 3 will simply fail to load. > > From: Mary Otten > Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 6:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Trying to sync books to BARD Mobile using Itunes 12 > > I did not think you were supposed to be able to add books to barred using > iTunes. I thought the whole point of the BARD Mobile app was to get books > from Bart off of its website using that app. What am I missing? > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 18, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Nicki keck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> HI all, >> >> >> >> I thought I’d try this with some books I had downloaded. I am using Windows >> 10 and JAWS 17. I tab to BARD mobile and I click on that with my mouse >> cursor, because there seems to be no other way to select it. Then, I choose >> add file and choose the files I want. Itunes says it is copying these files >> to my iPhone, but when I unplug it and go into BARD Mobile, the files are >> not showing up in audio books under bookshelf. I got one of them to show >> up, and don’t ask me how. I’ve tried resetting the phone multiple times, >> and I have closed the BARD Mobile app from the app switcher and gone back >> in, but the files will not show up. If I choose BARD mobile again from the >> apps, it shows me the bard mobile documents section with all the files I >> have added, but they are not showing up at all in BARD mobile when I open it >> and no doorbell sound. Any ideas? What could I be missing? >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> [email protected] >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the VIPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your VIPhone list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
