More or less the same sentiments here. I will add that they do offer titles that are pretty obscure and that you’re not likely to find in recorded format anywhere else. The app itself had gotten better, but it’s in general just meh… I too would not pay for the service now, but being grandfathered in, I do still use it from time to time.
Cristóbal From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon! At the risk of going too deep into thread creep, I would only use Learning Ally as a very last resort because their readers are poor to terrible for the most part. IN college, 50 years ago, I had to use them exclusively for audio books because in the day, they were the only source for text books. I was reading a book for my Freshman Fiction class, Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence. The book started out with a fabulous British reader! I swear, in mid paragraph, but it was probably at a page break, a woman with a very, very strong southern US accent took over. I had to jump up and stop the player, which BTW was a real-to-real player and calm my outrage. I won’t repeat what I likely said … There were at least 6 other readers before finishing the book. But, without them, I would not have been able to get through college, so I am grateful. I am also grateful they Grandfathered those of us into the Learning Ally from Recordings for the Blind because I absolutely wouldn’t pay for the service even if that was the only source for a book. I’d scan the book myself first. OK, back to focusing on BARD, 😊 Richard “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard My web site: https://www.turner42.com <https://www.turner42.com/> 🦅 From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Matthew Bullis Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 9:29 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: BARD 2.0 is coming soon! I only use Learning Ally when I can't find something somewhere else. There app is terrible. It doesn’t use the magic tap to start and stop playback, you can't increase the speed without going into several screen levels deep, and the thing that's the search says magnifying glass. It's definitely usable and accessible, but not efficient or nice. Matthew On Sep 16, 2022, at 8:27 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Definitely all good things. I sure wish Learning Ally hadn't redone it's web site when they were no longer Recordings for the Blind, and made getting boks so arduous. I rarely use them anymore. Are they up to date on thelatest texts books, etc? Is anyone here still enjoying their many offereings? Deidre From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:17 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon! I particularly like the idea of being able to download directly from the search results. Sometimes, I want to download a book immediately, not put it on the wish list and then download it. The improved search results will also be welcome. Richard “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard My web site: https://www.turner42.com <https://www.turner42.com/> 🦅 From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 8:15 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon! BARD is a true life line. Much of this we can do already but some of the added flexibility is nice. Deidre From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:12 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: BARD 2.0 is coming soon! >From BARD Support: Note the update is due out by September 23rd it is not >available yet. The email below is from BARD Support. Announcing BARD Mobile for iOS 2.0 We're excited to tell you that NLS has released version 2.0 of BARD Mobile for iOS. In this version, the BARD Website option is replaced by a new and powerful search engine that has the following abilities: " Search by keyword, title, author, or annotation. " Search for either braille or audio content. " Use the Keyword search to search for narrators. " Search for items in the Music collection, including music appreciation and instructional materials as well as music scores. " Access all the options available from books in your wish list, Recently Added Books, etc., such as downloading directly from the search results page and viewing all the books by the same author or in the same series. " Enter an author's or narrator's name in any format and without quotation marks and get reliable results. " Enter words from a title without quotation marks and get reliable results. " Enter multiple types of information in a Keyword search, such as part of a title and an author's last name or a title and narrator's name, and get reliable results. " Change the type of search after you conduct the original search. " Sort search results by title, author, or latest (the publication date). To conduct a search, choose the Search option at the top of the Get Books screen, just above Wish List. Keyword is the default search type, and Audio is the default format. Change these settings if you like, type or dictate search terms in the search field, and choose Go or Search. 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