Hmm, interesting experiment. I went into my App Switcher and cleared
everything out using the three finger swipe up. this time my focus kept
moving to the next item in the list, so I never had to swipe right. Go
figure. After that. I enabled airplane mode and brought up BARD Mobile.
I was able to read a book just fine. I suspect I'll be able to keep
reading books on my iPhone even if the BARD site shuts down.
I've heard that you can't use iTunes to transfer your books to the
iPhone if the BARD site were down, but I'm skeptical about this as well.
This additional verification isn't done when I copy a book onto a blank
cartridge or my Booksense. I'm also not sure how iTunes on my PC would
know how to check for anything, since I entered my user ID and password
in the BARD Mobile app on my iPhone. Hopefully, we won't have to find
out if this is ever true or not.
On 10/01/2013 02:27 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
I’m a bit confused. So your saying for example, if I left my IOs device in
airplane mode, I wouldn’t be able to read the books I downloaded onto my device
because the app can not authenticate?
Ricardo Walker
[email protected]
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:06 AM, eric oyen <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't just carry around for the hell of it. And yes, I spend most of my
waking hours reading while doing other things (like working on this computer).
I also maintain a library of works I like to reread. This also means that if my
internet connection dies, I won't have to worry about how to get that next book.
One suggestion for the NLS, use bit torrent. it will allow a far faster
download speed. Also, since it is open source, you can tailor it to feed only
US clients. This will also allow the NLS to decentralize some of its server
operations (so that IF the primary site goes down, the others will still be
live).
Anyway, the technology is getting good enough that any one person can have
enough storage space to contain the entire BARD file holdings (about 12 TV or
so). SO, it is not inconceivable that several copies of the entire index can be
located in private institutions (local libraries for example).
proposed torrent client would require an authentication certificate (like the
VR stream or the Braille Sense) in order to log onto the torrent swarm. THis
would limit the users to authorized clients only. That same torrent can also
copy (in real time) the database that NLS uses to index their materials. This
would allow local libraries to have their own local copy. Also, with local
volunteer readers, new works could be brought online a lot faster and
distributed to all nodes in short order.
Seems complicated? not really. In fact, twitter does this very thing.
Anyway, that can be how to get around a government shutdown of the NLS and
still allow access to the materials.
-eric
On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Joseph FreeTech wrote:
One can read books using the Bard Mobile app in the same way as on the
VRS--once the books are downloaded you can read away. The only difference is
in whether you want to fill 32 gigs of books on your phone or on the VRS'
SDHC card. Quite frankly, depending on what you're reading, if you have more
than a handful of books on either device, you're probably carrying them
around just for the heck of it rather than because you're reading 24/7.
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