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Loading Audiobooks onto a Talking Book Reader (self.Blind)
submitted by madtowntripper
Hey! Hope this question makes sense. My Grandfather gets recorded books in the mail through the "Material for the Blind" program. He isn't wild about the selection and I have access to pretty much any audiobook ever. I ordered a casette for the player on Amazon but I'm curious if I'm going to have trouble adding books to it and if he'll be able to play them on the player.

Is there a special format? Has anyone does this before?

Any information would be helpful. Just trying to make his life a little better.

Thanks in advance!
retrolental_morose 2 points 2y ago
we'd need more info on the model I think.
None of the devices I've seen support M4b or chapters, but everything seems to play MP3. Again, long 1 file per book maybe a bad idea - I hate it when people destroy the metadata of an M4B and save into a long and unsplittable MP3 personally.
madtowntripper [OP] 1 points 2y ago
ginsenshi 1 points 2y ago
If this is the NLS talking book player, if you have a BARD account set up in his name he /you can download the talkingbooks he's interested in.


for signup etc


https://www.loc.gov/nls/about/services/braille-audio-reading-download-bard/


BARD website

https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/login//NLS
madtowntripper [OP] 1 points 2y ago
This is helpful - thanks! There's definitely some information there about transferring and file types.
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