[Athen] Archive.org question

[Deborah Armstrong]

Well I'm making progress - luckily I do love challenges and George, thank you so much.

I downloaded several textbooks that looked interesting in Daisy and stuck them on my stream. They did indeed play because as a disabled person myself I have a BARD key. But of course, this doesn't fix things for my students; it just verifies this key thing works fine.

And, they only play on the stream. I cannot open the files anywhere else, because I can't put a BARD key on a player that runs on Windows or the mac. I'll have to try them on my iPHONE with BARD mobile.

But my students need there books, so I had to stop goofing off. I downloaded the format for Adobe digital editions, and I can open and read it. Now I just have to run it through Codex to zap the copy protection and my student should be able to open it in K3000!

--Debee



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Hello,

This is complicated, but here you go:

It was encoded using the NLS public key. So you need a player that has the NLS private key installed. This means that a player can decode the information and present it. However, if you have an audio only player that plays audio files, then it cannot do anything with the text files.

I tested this way back when using a Victor Stream that has an EPUB reader. It worked fine. However, you are not going to be able to convert this title with what is available. I think there is perhaps one or two NLS authorized players that could work.

It is poorly designed, and I made these observations. They did this, because NLS qualifies the people who can get titles available through the copyright exception, and the Internet Library does not have the facilities to manage individual user copyright exception authorizations.

Best
George


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Subject: [Athen] Archive.org question

I had used archive.org for recreation but never before to download textbooks.

I am finding several textbooks my students need there.

I have been granted disability access, but even before that, I could download the books I wanted in Daisy. However I got this message when I tried to open the files:
"The content of this book is protected. To read this book, you must use a device that has the appropriate key installed"

Now I have a learning ally and a BARD key installed on all of our Daisy players plus all my personal players here at home.

But I have three questions:
1)    These books are etext and the players that need keys are audio only. How is this key thing supposed to work?
2)    Even if I do get a key, how am I supposed to convert this file to the format my students need and/or want? The key is for a player, not a converter. Was I supposed to download in a different format?
3)    And how do I get a key, anyway?


--Debee

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