Quite so, Martin.  The book marks and place markers are all kept in the 
machine and there is room for hundreds of them.  I had been using a thumb 
drive while waiting for my blank cartridge to arrive and when it did, I 
expected to have to find my place anew when I loaded the book onto the 
cartridge but as soon as I inserted it into the NLs player it picked right 
up where I'd left off on the thumb drive.  NLS did a first-rate job on that 
player.  Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:16 PM
Subject: Good Old "QST" in Digital Form, Finally I'm in the 21ST Century.


>I got a little box from my regional library last Friday
> containing one of the NLS digital players. One of the librarians
> there in Oklahoma City emailed me what I needed to sign up for
> the NLS bard site and I got the authorization to download on
> Monday.
>
> The February "QST" is apparently not ready for
> distribution yet, but I did download "QST" for January which I
> already had on tape to see what it is like and also to
> demonstrate the new technology for my local  radio club. It all
> worked beautifully. The audio is perfect for voice. This is the
> cat's miaow, isn't it.
>
> I discovered that the NLS players remember your place in
> more than one book. I had downloaded a different Talking Book
> from bard and had read up to Chapter 4 in that book. I expected
> to loose my place there when I not only removed the thumb drive
> but removed the book that I had put on it and put in the "QST"
> on the same drive.
>
> Last night, I removed the "QST" from the thumb drive and
> replaced it with the other Talking Book again and discovered
> that the player still rememberred it was at the beginning of
> Chapter 4. Pretty neat!
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group