Digital Update
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010A digital talking book machine case is sold by Executive Products, Inc. The Executive NLS/BPH case has been designed to enable the user to easily utilize all keys, ports and accesses while on the unit. The unit can be carried on a comfortable shoulder strap or a hand carry strap. Visit their site for more [...]
Audio Bibles
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010The nonprofit, Faith Comes By Hearing, has created the palm-sized “Mini Proclaimer” and a “Bible Stick”, a small dedicated digital player that looks like an iPod Nano. Most of the machines are given away. You can also listen to a streaming bible. The nonprofit is hoping to develop audio Bible applications for smart phones as well. Vist their [...]
Digital Books Catalogs
Friday, May 7th, 2010Digital books available through the Talking Books Plus library are listed in the bi-monthly Talking Book Topics book catalog. The November-December 2009 issue is the first issue to add digital books in the catalog. Order digital books by DB number. This 2009 issue announced the availability of cartridges and the changes to the Talking Book Topics [...]
RFB&D and NLS Digital Player
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010For those folks needing this information, here are basic steps borrowed from another Regional Library used to authorize an NLS player to play RFB&D books.
The RFB&D account holder needs to login to his/her account, choose to “Authorize a DAISY player”. Choose the appropriate NLS model (advanced or standard player) from the dropdown list of DAISY [...]
Reading Across RI Related Books
Monday, April 19th, 2010The following Talking Books Plus fictional books are set in Guernsey Island. They come from the Reading Across RI Resource List for the book, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B.Edwards RC17425
A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George RC56504, BR 14871, DB [...]
Download Training at Insight
Friday, April 16th, 2010INSIGHT is an organization that serves the needs of Rhode Island’s blind and visually-impaired population of all ages. They offer classes on an ongoing basis for anyone with visual impairment/blindness who would like to learn how to download books from the National Library Services (NLS) website to a blank cartridge. Insight trains people who are blind/visually [...]
Digital Machine Starting Automatically
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010To Talking Books Plus members who are enjoying the new digital talking book machine (dtbm), please note that when a powered off machine is plugged into an outlet which experiences a power outage, the machine will automatically startup when power is restored. That’s because the machine is actually still on when the power is off. The sudden startup of the [...]
Olympic Games Books
Thursday, February 11th, 2010For those wanting to whet their appetite for the 2010 Winter Olympic in Vancouver, Canada, here are some books of general interest about the olympic games and Vancouver.
Olympic Games
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey RC62247, DB062247 Downloadable Talking Book
The Game by Ken Dryden RC20824
The Highlights of the Olympics: from ancient times to the present by [...]
Downloading Tip
Friday, February 5th, 2010This blog is being used to share what one librarian calls “workarounds” for patrons who are downloading BARD titles to their digital machine. One patron claims to load her downloaded BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) books to a MP3 player and then plays the books on the NLS digital book machine by connecting it to [...]
Blank Cartridge Update
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Blank cartridges for downloading digital books from the Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) system are no longer available from Independent Living Aids, LLC. American Printing House for the Blind and Adaptive Technology, a division of Perkins Products of the Perkins School for the Blind, are selling blank digital talking book cartridges. Visit links for both American Printing House [...]
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