HI Mary, Well, on my SE 2020, the adapter works great for Voice Dream Reader for anything you want. Obviously, Bookshare is easiest gotten directly. But, if you put zipped audio files, word files, mp3 files, anything VDR will read, you can download them from the USB Drive by using his File Browser and making sure to start at the top of the structure so you have the list of locations rather than being in the last one you had used. It is nice that it remembers though, so once you download from a thumb drive, the next time you select File Browser from the Add menu, you are on your thumb drive.
I've heard you can do this with BARD from Dropbox, but I have no idea. I tried downloading a BARD book onto the drive, but again, it will be far easier to do that through the app. Especially now that their library is on the cloud. Downloads are extremely fast. I wouldn't think Audible would ever be that flexible. Which Mini do you have now? Richard "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." - Jane Wagner My Web site: https://www.turner42.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2021 7:57 AM To: via VIPhone <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: iPad mini with thumb drives, useful for anything besides photos? I am intrigued by the most recently released iPad mini, but I am not intrigued by the fact that the entry-level model has just 64 GB, and then you have to pay a whopping $150 more to get 256 GB. No 128, a blatant and obvious upsell if ever there was one. I know you can access thumb drives with the Files app. But I haven't heard of any of the apps that we would be more likely to use, such as voice dream, audible, Bard mobile, Ha ha ha, actually being able to take advantage of such a facility. I would like to be able to download things right onto a thumb drive. I am pretty sure that's not possible. But I would like to be wrong. At the very least, if there were a way to download a bunch of stuff onto a thumb drive via a PC and then easily transfer that on to the iPad as necessary, that would work. But of course the other way would be more convenient. Does anybody have any experience here? Mary Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fviphone%40googlegroups.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C20cb632f90484b89511808d98034b978%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637681786201320052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Pu7b50HQcAdOpQe9TWDpkYZ8BcdKPCNv%2BcQ9%2FtR%2BI%2Fo%3D&reserved=0 --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fviphone%2FCA073337-FC35-4B69-8759-F228B4949F23%2540gmail.com&data=04%7C01%7C%7C20cb632f90484b89511808d98034b978%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637681786201320052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=IFVC27rY%2BHXnlLIsXSpW2ltAcE76lSX0FLgLbLb34HU%3D&reserved=0. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone 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 V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MW4PR17MB45135DF1284E65DD3FC3704BB7A59%40MW4PR17MB4513.namprd17.prod.outlook.com.
