Hi Everyone,

Yes, and there is this company called Ferguson Enterprises that also sells the Victor Reader Stream, and any size of SD card. <smile>

You can reach them at:  605-854-9280

Blessings,

Pat Ferguson


At 09:02 PM 7/28/2009, you wrote:

Rhonda and others who don't know,
 
The Braille and Audio Download network is all the digital books you can download from NLS on their website for free.  You need a Victor Reader, or something similar to it, in order to be register to download and to open the digital books to read on your reading device.  They are starting to send these to individual libraries for the blind but it will be a good year before the adverage blind library user can get one and probably longer.  To buy a Victor from humanware.com is about 350 dollars.  A memory card of various storage capability, from 1 gig to 32 gigs, is what you use to store the books to read, music you wish to listen to, ipod files and more.  The cards are removable and so you can keep literally hundreds and hundreds of books to read for your personal library.  I have about 20 books on mine right now and am slowly downloading and collecting all the left behind books which I never got to read because every time I tried checking them out from the library for the blind, they had no available copies left.  The narritor who originally reads the book is the voice you hear on the Victor Reader which isn't much larger than a couple of cassette tapes stacked on top of each other.  You can safely say that this new system, once everyone can obtain a reading device from their local library for the blind, will totally replace all other audio recordings for the blind.  You can set book markers in each book, jump heading to heading, and based upon how a book is marked up digitally, even page to page.  If you are using etext files, it has a dual speech built in speech synthesizer, male and female, and you can even type in a word or phrase to search for.  This is the tip of the iceburg of its features and capability.
 
Phil.
 

John