I'm trying to use this new web mail and slowly figuring it out.  they don't make it easy.  good luck with your new player. 

--- On Wed, 3/3/10, Martin McCormick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Martin McCormick <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Good Old "QST" in Digital Form, Finally I'm in the 21ST Century.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 12:16 PM
> 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
>