In attendance: (11 participants)
Jackie McBrearty, Annette McCarthy, Vera Naughton, Eamonn O'Connor, Joe Murphy,
Noreen Meagher, Bob Corazza, Tom Langan, Michael Brown, Declan Meenagh,
Cearbhall O'Meadhra.
Declan opened up with a new microphones that he is trying out to see if it
would suit as support for future live meetings. However, the sound was not
good this morning. The microphone seems to b picking up slight echoes from the
surrounding room causing it to vary in volume and in clarity. This would make
it uncomfortable for a full meeting.
The Public Libraries in Ireland are committed to BorrowBox, Bolinda Audio's
flagship application for listening to audio books and eBooks. In the past few
weeks, the "Now playing" function has disappeared. A new option that appears to
be a settings dialog, appears where the "Now playing" button was located. This
new button is not correctly labelled. As most readers will know, the "Now
Playing" button was a very handy way for getting back into a book at the exact
spot where you last stopped. Now it is necessary to find the book and then
adjust the reading position to the nearest recognisable place to continue on. A
note has been sent to the developer to see if this is only a temporary glitch
or must we adjust to a Lon-term loss of this function.
BorrowBox registration was suspended for the past 18 months due to Covid but is
now required. A simple phone call to the local library will suffice. The
librarian will then renew your original bar code and four digit pin.
Other alternatives such as Audible (.co.uk and .com) Easy Reade, Caliber,
Bookshare, etc were discussed, .
The audio provider, scribD was mentioned as an alternative source of electronic
books. Similar to the others, it offers Access to an unlimited number of
e-books, audiobooks, magazines, and more â all for only â¬9,99 per month. A
free, 30-day initial offer is available to encourage subscription. More
information is available at: Https://www.scribd.com/about
Revolut is proving really popular as a safe means of card payment. The initial
process needs sighted assistance as the passport and selfie that are required
for identification have proved impossible to create non-visually. A sheen on
the passport photo is unavoidable without sight and care is needed to secure a
selfie that matches the passport photo in a convincing manner.
We are inclined to book all our communication services with the same provider
but it appears that this is not at all necessary. By way of example, the
meeting recommended the user friendly Skye Box for the television and Virgin
Media for telephone communication.
Holidays, and the lack of WIFI while away from the home base, prompted bob to
find out the possibility of using his mobile phone as a WIFI source and what
costs people were aware of. The meeting recommended either pay as you go or
"All you can eat" data provision to make this and economic proposition. To use
this feature, the mobile phone is set up as a "Hot Spot" that generates a WIFI
stream which can then be used by another internet using system. As the Hot Spot
is using cellular data, this could prove expensive.
Catherine from Fighting Blindness will attend the next meeting to explain the
ins and outs of a new fund-raising campaign for the Summer.
The meeting ended
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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