Yes, you have to put each book in its own folder.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
> Acording to Lloyd, the player should work with drives up to at least 32
> gig.
> I'm using a 2 gig drive that works great and don't really need anything
> bigger for that player. BTW, Don't you have to put each book into it's
> own
> folder on the drive? I have 4 different folders on my thumb drive named 1
> through 4 and I put a book into each one of them. When I want to delete a
> book I just select all the files in the apropriate folder and delete them.
> Lou
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>
>
>> They do have an apparently undocumented limit. They recommend no larger
>> than a 2Gb drive I think, and we put 20 books on an 8Gig drive and my
>> wife
>> told me it only recognized the first four.
>>
>> You can get a narrower usb drive in the front of the player, where the
>> cartridge normally goes, it is the same type of USB connection. YOu just
>> have to maneuver it a bit.
>>
>> ----- 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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