PLEXTALK Pocket firmware version 2 - FAQ NLS Digital Talking Books and Magazines (only for the United States) Q. Can I play NLS books downloaded from their web site on my PLEXTALK Pocket? A. Yes. If you are an eligible reader of NLS, you can get digital talking books and magazines at the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service web site. For more information, please go and see BARD service web site; https://nlsbard.loc.gov/. Q. Do I need to apply registrations or authorizations in order to download NLS books and play them on my Pocket? A. Yes. You need to register to BARD service and authorize your PLEXTALK Pocket for playback of books and magazines NLS provides. The registration and authorization are made through the following process. 1. Select PLEXTALK Pocket on NLS BARD service for authorization Case 1: For a person who does not have a username nor password of NLS BARD service: You have to get a username and password to login and access to NLS BARD service web site. First please go to the following web site. https://nlsbard.loc.gov/ On this page, please select and jump to the link for the 'BARD application instructions' . If you have confirmed you qualify, please select the 'link to the BARD application form' on this page and you will move to this form page. On that form page, please select the library you are affiliated with from a dropdown box on this page then press or select Submit button, and you will move to another page. On that page, please enter necessary information for the application then please press or select the Submit button, and you will move to the page to select your player. On this page, please select PLEXTALK Pocket from the player list. Finally you will be approved. After that your username and password will be delivered by email from NLS. If there is a problem, you will receive a message explaining the problem. Case 2: For a person who have got a username and password of NLS BARD service: Please go to the following web page. https://nlsbard.loc.gov/ On that page, please input your username and password and log in to NLS BARD service. On the following page, please select 'Account Settings' and register your PLEXTALK Pocket. Note: Some of your personal information will be sent and shared by us to be used only for key generation process. 2. You will be contacted by us to start the key generation process. NLS will notify us that your PLEXTALK Pocket has been registered. After that, we will send email to you to ask for the serial number of your PLEXTALK Pocket. The serial number is needed to generate a unique key only for your Pocket. Please send email with the serial number, your name and so on. You can find the serial number of your Pocket by pressing the Menu Key on your device, choose 'System settings' and then 'System properties'. The 12-digit serial number is announced after the system version. This System properties will be announced repeatedly. Even if you have missed to note it down, please keep announcing it and note it carefully. If you want to stop announcing, please press the Menu key. The serial number is also be printed on the label on the inside of the battery housing. 3. Key will be delivered to you Once we have received email with the serial number, we will generate a key file and send it to you as a file attached to email. This email will tell you how to install the key. After the key installation, PLEXTALK Pocket will be able to play NLS books, magazines, newspapers you have got from NLS BARD service and transfer to the SD card on your PLEXTALK Pocket. Also you will be play books on NLS cartridge. Q. I have registered for the BARD service and my Pocket has been authorized with a key. How can I get a book from BARD and play it on my Pocket? A. You can download a book or magazine on BARD service web site. But BARD service provides books or magazine as a zip file, and first you will have to extract a file on your computer, then copy the book or magazine in the zip file to your Pocket directly or to an SD card. Step 1: Download a file On NLS BARD web site at https://nlsbard.loc.gov/, please input your username and password you have received from NLS, then log in. After login, please select a book or magazine you want to read. When you press or select ENTER button, you will be asked how you get the book on your computer. Please press or select 'Save' , not 'Open' . The following box will ask you to specify a location where you want to save the book. Please choose the location and press or select 'Save' . Then your computer will start downloading a zip file containing the book you have chosen. Step 1: Unzip a file you have downloaded The NLS book or magazine is in a zip file you have downloaded. Please unzip this file on your computer. One of the ways to unzip it is just to double-click the file and a new window where the book or magazine is displayed will open. Step 2: Copy NLS book or magazine from your PC Case 1: If you want to copy book or magazine to your Pocket via USB 1. Please make sure to power off your Pocket. Then please connect Pocket to your PC using a long USB cable which was provided with Pocket in a gift box. Please power on your Pocket and your PC will recognize your Pocket, SD card in your Pocket exactly speaking, as a removable disk. 2. Please make a new folder on the removable disk. Your Pocket will recognize any folder names written in alphabets and/or numbers. Please copy the NLS book or magazine into this folder. This copy process may take some time. Note: PLEASE DO NOT COPY BOOKS OR MAGAZINES ON THE ROOT OF SD CARD. PLEXTALK POCKET CAN NOT PLAY THOSE CONTENTS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO MAKE A NEW FOLDER ON SD CARD AND COPY THE CONTENTS INTO THIS FOLDER. 3. After your PC complete to copy it, please remove this removable disk using Safely Remove Hardware provided on the Windows System Tray. After your PC announce you can safely remove it, please disconnect the USB cable from your Pocket and your Pocket will start to restart automatically. 4. Now you can play the NLS book or magazine you have copied to your Pocket. Please just operate your Pocket as you select books on your SD card. Case 2: If you want to copy book or magazine to SD card inserted in card reader 1. Please insert a SD card to an SD card reader and connect it to your computer. 2. Please make sure that your computer have recognized this SD card as a removable drive. 3. Please make a new folder on the removable disk. Your Pocket will recognize any folder names written in alphabets and/or numbers. Please copy the NLS book or magazine into this folder. This copy process may take some time. Note: PLEASE DO NOT COPY BOOKS OR MAGAZINES ON THE ROOT OF SD CARD. PLEXTALK POCKET CAN NOT PLAY THOSE CONTENTS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO MAKE A NEW FOLDER ON SD CARD AND COPY THE CONTENTS INTO THIS FOLDER. 4. After your PC complete to copy it, please remove this removable disk using Safely Remove Hardware provided on the Windows System Tray. After your PC announce you can safely remove it, please insert the SD card into your Pocket and power it on. 5. Now you can play the NLS book or magazine you have copied to your Pocket. Please just operate your Pocket as you select books on your SD card. Q. Can I read a book in a NLS book cartridge on PLEXTALK Pocket? A. Yes. First please make sure to authorize your PLEXTALK Pocket for NLS books as you read above. After that please just connect an NLS book cartridge to your Pocket by a short USB cable which came with your Pocket in a gift box as one of the standard accessories. Your Pocket will recognize and select a book in the cartridge as a USB media, so you can just press Play Key to read the book. Q. Can I copy a book in a NLS cartridge to my Pocket? A. Yes. First please connect an NLS book cartridge to your PLEXTALK Pocket by a short USB cable which came with your Pocket in a gift box as one of the standard accessories. Your Pocket will recognize the cartridge as a USB media. Then please press the 9 Key. Your Pocket will start to back up the book into the SD card inserted in the Pocket..