Unable to Find My Book

[Ana G]

Hi all,

 

I put a daisy book onto the phone's SD card, but when I browse for it with the daisy player, I only find the folders on the card, not the book, which is in the root directory.

 

The book is _Fanny Hill_ from Munseys. I downloaded it as a daisy file. the file name was "fhill.xml," but I renamed it to "Fanny Hill.xml." I had no problem copying it to the SD card, and I have no problem finding it with Astro File Manager.

 

But when I try browsing with the Daisy reader, I can't find it. I've browsed by pressing the selector on the Open button; when I do, I get a list of the folders on the SD card, but not the file. I've also tried pressing the selector on the Search for Books button; when I do, nothing seems to happen. I've tried touching the screen after pressing Search for Books in case I need to scroll that way, but nothing happens then either.

 

When I use Astro, I can navigate to the file, and when I press the selector, I get an Android system screen that offers the Moon Reader and two file editors.

 

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

 

Ciao

[Julian Harty]

Ana,
Is this a DAISY 2.02 format book? (The software is still limited to
the older version of the books).

[Ana Garza G'z]

Hmm, the format listed for the book is daisy dtb. Does dtb suggest a
specific daisy version? I'm not finding an FAQ for Munseys to get that
information.

[Julian Harty]

Ana,

The book is in the DAISY 3.0 format. My player plays the older format, known as DAISY 2.02. DAISY 2.02 is still the main version used in Europe (where I live). DAISY 3.0 seems to be more common in the USA, and the site you're using seems to be American, hence the problem. I think http://www.once.es/new provides DAISY books in the older format.

My program is also limited to playing the 'full audio' DAISY books, it doesn't use voice synthesis or the Android Text-to-speech library yet.

I downloaded some initial (boring) sample books from the main daisy.org web site. I use these, and some other books I've received from various people, to test the software.

Julian