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Cannot Read What Downloaded
By Alicia Waters | April 16, 2013
Ever find that a BARD book you downloaded won’t play on your NLS player and the book downloaded very quickly? Now that Web-Braille, the downloadable braille material service, has been added to the BARD collection, it is important that when selecting titles to download, the correct book number is selected. Any book number in the BARD collection that starts with DB is an audio title. If the book number is preceded by BR then the title is a braille book. Another difference between audio and braille titles listed in the collection is that braille books don’t have narrators listed in the descriptions. To narrow searching to DB titles only in BARD, choose “Audio only” in the ” Display results” pull down menu on the “Update account settings” page of BARD.
“Display results” selections include “Audio only”, Braille only” or “Both.” “Both” is the default. If neither “Audio only” or “Braille only” is selected than DB titles are succeeded by braille titles when browsing the collection. A braille book can be downloaded by accident with this setup.
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