A bookshare will do the same thing, but as with BARD, you have to use the same
login email.
Best,
Katherine
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Slightly Off Topic: Is There A Problem With Open
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First, you don't need a user key for Open Library books if you have a reader
that reads text and has an NLS key. At Open Library they figure that if you
have an NLS key then you must be qualified. As for what is wrong, put simply,
it is broken. This happened once before and they didn't get it fixed for about
a year. It has been broken again for a long time now, but a whole year has not
yet passed. However, you should be able to get the books you want in accessible
format anyway. You have to go to the Internet Archive. That is found at
Archive.org. To get the books in accessible format there you will have to
register and provide proof of disability. As I recall, that was real easy. At
least it is if you have a BARD account. I don't remember if a Bookshare account
will do or not. But you enter your BARD password and the system will try to log
in as if it was you. I think you have to use the same email address that you
use with BARD. Once it verifies that you are a BARD user it will give you
access to the books that you can then download.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief
and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your
patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's
wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly
bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory scientifically
demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had not the courage to
follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must realize that we
created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin D.
Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept On 6/5/2021 3:11 PM, Kane Brolin wrote:
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While I am not a regular user of the Open Library Internet Archive, I
do have a valid login and remember downloading a few DAISY-formatted,
encrypted books from there in the past.
But today when I tried to download two different books from Open
Library, which are unavailable electronically from anywhere else, I
got the repeated error message saying that DAISY encryption had
failed. No further explanation was forthcoming.
To attempt the download itself, I was using a Windows 10-enabled Dell
notebook computer: not a device I could have read an NLS Talking Book
on, to be sure; but at least I figure I should have been able to
download the content. I was logged in when I attempted this, so it
seems obvious that the Internet Archive recognizes me as a valid
subscriber. Yes, I know I will need to get a user access key of some
kind and install that key on whatever device I ultimately use to read
the books: my ElBraille, I hope.
Any ideas about what is wrong here?
Thank you.
-Kane
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