I just opened a book that was in my bookshelf and it worked fine. I don't put books in my wish list on the website but actually go through the download process which takes a few minutes per book. I have 17 books on my IPhone and I can open all of them. On 10/1/13, Wayne gmail <ewaynebrum...@gmail.com> wrote: > I downloaded two books last night but did not start listening to either of > them. Since I did not do so, they did not get validated with Bard through > the app. Now I get a message that the book is not authorized. The book I > had already started works fine. > > Lesson learned: Don't just download a book before a shut down. Actually > start reading it at least long enough to trigger the validation. > > As to all the political and international sniping, I wish folks would > just > get a life! Life goes on and some days are diamonds and some days are > rocks.. I'm sure someone said that before me<smile>. > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Shawn > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 10:44 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Bard and my experience today > > > > Well as of about 10am central time Bard stopped working. > > > Due to the temporary shutdown of the federal government, > the Library of Congress is closed to the public and researchers beginning > October 1, 2013 until further notice. > > > All public events are cancelled and web sites are inaccessible > except the legislative information sites <http://thomas.loc.gov/> > THOMAS.gov and <http://beta.congress.gov/> beta.congress.gov. > > > > > > > So I was like oh crap well I'll use dropbox to load some books I downloaded > on my computer to put on my Bard Mobile app. I got it loaded and it told > me > I'm not authorized to read this material, so it looks like you can not load > new content onto your Bard mobile app until the shutdown is over according > to my experiences, if anyone has any other work arounds for the Bard mobile > app I'd love to hear them. > > > > thanks > > shawn > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >
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