You can also copy multiple books to a cartridge.  Yes, the battery life is 
incredible.  I like using a cartridge over the flash drive.  The cartridge 
is much easier to get out of the player.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:05 AM
Subject: nls player


> The NLS has earned the highest praise and support that we can give them 
> with
> the new digital players!  I got mine Thursday night, and with help, I have
> discovered a few fascinating things.
> 1.  If you load multiple books on a travel drive, you can open the library
> by holding down the play button for 3 seconds.  Then the right and left
> arrows go through the books.
> 2.  Kingston travel drives are recommended, but I had an 8 GB verbatim 
> store
> and go here, it works fine.  Sorry if I spelled that wrong.
> 2.  You have to be careful with this, thin fingers help.  The cartridges
> connect to the machine via a standard USB port at the back of the cassette
> well.  To avoid sticking a drive out the side of the machine, plug the 
> drive
> in to the port inside the well.  Tiny drives are not recommended, unless 
> you
> have really thin fingers.  The battery doesn't report more than 29 hours 
> of
> life, but I hear it actually runs the machine for 35 hours.
> You may have to have the latest firmware for all of this to work, Mine 
> says
> 2.1.4, I don't know how to get or update the machine yet.  If you have the
> stream companion software, you can use it to transfer downloaded books to
> the travel drive.  My thanks to everybody who has been so helpful in
> answering my many questions.
>
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor