[bksvol-discuss] Re: important, may write off list, need advice on book storage

  • From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:33:09 -0400

Hi Jamie,

What I use to store my books is not thumb or pen drives but compact flash and 
secure digital cards.

I was surprised that your Sandisk SD card did not work in the braillenote, mine 
do.  External hard drivers won't work with the Braillenote they take too much 
power.

Gary's solution seems to be the most advantagous.  I store most of myy files on 
an external hard drive and the ones I am reading or working at the present time 
are on the SD or Compact flash cards.  I have a Braillenote Mpower, so perhaps 
things are different.

If you want as solid and reliable as you can get try for buring onto CD or 
getting a Solid State external hard drive, you will pay for it.  But apparently 
it is the most consistant thing out that won't become corrupted.



Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog


The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are 
all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not 
to one particular color or border. -Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1942) 



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Petraccaro 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:18 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: important, may write off list, need advice on 
book storage


  If I understand what you want, there's no way to make it completely foolproof 
and there's no way to make it not a two-step process.  What I hear you saying 
is that you don't trust anything you've tried.  The only other things to do 
would be to try multiple backup systems and to add backing up to cd or dvd to 
your backup options.  The reasons are that you don't trust what you've used, 
this is the only option you haven't listed, and everything will fail under some 
circumstances.


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jamie Prater 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:05 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] important, may write off list, need advice on 
book storage


    Hi, all, please feel free to write me off list about this matter as I need 
advice about something important.  I have downloaded hundreds--maybe over 1,000 
books from bard and bookshare since 2008, and after some problems with tme, I 
no longer trust thumb drives for storing books on like I have over the better 
part of the past two years.  Particularly for reading on the braille note, what 
is the best way to store all my books in one place?  Formerly, I have stored 
them on either two-gig lexar jump drives and one four-gig sand disk drive, and 
after bad experiences with drives and ports, I no longer trust this option as I 
did.  I tried an external hard drive but am not sure it was formatted properly 
for the braillenote to see it.  I download books from bookshare and bard and I 
eventually want a victor stream, but I also want portability.  I bought two 
4-gig sand disk sd cards and then discovered they didn't work for the 
braillenote since they were high capacity.  With these storage devices being so 
very tiny, I want the least amount of them to keep up with and as versatile 
option as possible so I can get all of these files out of their temporary home 
on my hard drive of my computer in my documents before my documents throws up.  
I am an avid reader and plan to go to college, like kids books and also 
download mysteries, craft books, and other books in which I am interested and I 
enjoy having a library in my hand as well as reading books from the regional 
library.  Any help and advice on this would be greatly appreciated.  You may 
write me privately at jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  I can also be reached on 
facebook as Jamie Prater, on skype as Jamie4Jesus, and on twitter as 
ddestiny38.  Thanks very, very much in advance for any help and advice.  Have 
an abundantly blessed day.

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