Consider the following, the larger the drive, the longer it will take the
nls player to load the books.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
> Hi List,
>
> On one of the other technical lists, someone said they had hooked up a 32
> GB
> card and that they had filled more than half of the space and that the NLS
> machine worked perfectly with it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I'm not aware of any limit as to the number of books the player will
> recognize as long as there's space available on the medium. Depending on
> the size of the book, I get seven or eight books onto a 1GB cartridge,
> which
> seems like enough since I can only read one book at a time. I don't like
> the idea of the USB thumb drive sticking out of the side of the machine,
> so
> I prefer the cartridges for that reason.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 15:04
> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>
>
>>I thought they were selling the cartridges, but I just use a regular USB
>> thumb drive.
>>
>> It appears as though the player won't recognize more than a few books on
>> the
>> USB drive, so a small one like 2GB would be plenty. You can get those
>> for
>> probably $15 or less on line from places like Newegg or Amazon.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>
>>
>>> True, but I don't think you can get the cable from APH.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 14:24
>>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>>
>>>
>>>>I made an error in my first post. The drive is a usb hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> How many books can you store on a cartridge? Looks like APH's
>>>> cartridges
>>>> are less expensive than Adaptive Technologies and they have more space.
>>>>
>>>> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
>>>>
>>
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