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7. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to navigate the list and the
SPACEBAR to select each desired item when you hear its
name.
You can also search the list of magazines by pressing
CONTROL+F. In the find dialog that opens , type in a word or
partial word, then press ENTER to search the list. Kurzweil 1000
reads the first item it finds. Press F3 to hear the next matching
item, and SHIFT+F3 to hear a previous match.
To get more information about any item in the list, press F7.
8. Choose the OK command.
Kurzweil 1000 downloads the materials in the background and
lets you know when the download is complete.
9. If the book you selected to download is from the Bookshare.org
Web site, and this is the first time you are requesting to
download from the site during this work session, a dialog
appears requesting your user name and password. If you are
not a member of Bookshare.org, you will not be able to
download the book.
Certain books from Baen Books also require prior registration
with the Web site. In those instances, Kurzweil 1000 asks for
your user ID and password before downloading.
The mnemonic, ALT+U, takes you to the user name text box;
ALT+P to the password text box. When typing in your password,
the system voice echoes each character with "asterisk."
Note: You can save the user name in a settings file to save time.
Go to Saving Your Settings in Chapter 12, Working with Settings
for details.
10.OK or Cancel the download.
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Performing Complex Searches
Performing searches can be a bit of an art. To get the results you
want, you very often have to refine your search. There are two ways
you can do this: by using combined conditions and/or by specifying
a complex query.
Using Combined Search Conditions
Following are examples of combinations of search parameters that
you can use in the Online Search for Books dialog:
Part of a title and/or another part of a title. Suppose all you
remember are the words "adventures" and "Crusoe" in the title and
cannot recall the author. By specifying "adventures," selecting the
conjunction "and," then specifying "Crusoe" also for the title, you
should get results with "The Further Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe" in the list.
Part of a title and/or part of an author’s name. What if you
remember a book by Oliver Wendell Holmes and its title contains
the word "breakfast?" By specifying "breakfast" as part of the title,
selecting the conjunction "or," then entering "holmes" for the author,
you would get a list of books by Holmes with the word "breakfast" in
their titles.
Part of an author’s name and/or part of another author’s name.
If you remember only the authors’ names but not the book they
wrote, you can specify one of their names; try "jackman." Select the
conjunction "and." Then specify the other author’s name, "russell."
The results would include the title "Flying Machine."
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Using Complex Queries
In the Online Search for Books dialog, the Query text box follows
the second set of title and author boxes. You can use ALT+Q to go
directly to it.
Whatever you specified in the simple or combined conditions in the
Online Search dialog appears in the Query area.
You can edit the text already in the Query area or bypass the other
conditions and type your complex query directly into the Query box,
following the correct syntax.
Kurzweil 1000 query syntax is subject-verb-object. The subject is
either "title" or "author." The verb is always "contains." The object is
the text string you provide. Kurzweil 1000 presents the object within
quotation marks.
Complex queries are strings of combined conditions in this syntax.
To combine the conditions, you use the conjunction "and," which
you denote with the ampersand character (SHIFT+7 keys), and the
conjunction "or," which you denote with the vertical line (SHIFT+\
keys).
An example of a complex query is:
title contains "A" & title contains "B" & author contains "X" |
author contains "Y"
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Looking Through Online Bookshelves
Access to Online Book Repositories has always been through a
search mechanism, but sometimes it’s nice to simply look through
a list of all of the available items. This can be done with most, but
not all, repositories.
About the Look Through Bookshelves Dialog
The Online Search for Books dialog contains the following
components along with the OK and Cancel commands:
Sites list box (mnemonic ALT+T) presents most of the Web sites for
online books, as well as the Classic Literature CD. But unlike other
Kurzweil 1000 Web site lists, you can choose only one site.
Status box (ALT+A) provides progress on the process.
Items available for Download (ALT+I) is a checkbox list, sorted by
title then author.
Sort by list box (ALT+S or the shortcut CONTROL+S) lets you re-
sort the list between Title and Author.
To view and download a bookshelf:
1. Do one of the following:
Open the Online menu and choose Look through the
Bookshelves.
Or press ALT+N+L.
This opens a dialog. The cursor is in the Sites list box.
2. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to select one site.
3. Press ENTER to start the download.
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Kurzweil 1000 tells you the progress of building the bookshelf.
To hear this message again, press ALT+A to go to the Status
box.
When Kurzweil 1000 is done building the list of files available for
download, it reads the first item in the list. Each item has a
checkbox.
4. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to go through the list, or
press a letter key to go to the items beginning with that letter.
Use the Spacebar to select a particular item for download, or to
deselect an item that has already been selected. Use F7 for
more information.
You can also search the list by pressing CONTROL+F. In the
Find dialog that opens, type in a word or partial word, then press
ENTER to search the list. Kurzweil 1000 reads the first item it
finds. Press F3 to hear the next matching item, and SHIFT+F3
to hear a previous match.
Note: The list is initially sorted by title, and the text for each item
contains the title, and then the author. If you prefer to sort the list
by Author, press CONTROL+S. The list resorts. The text for
each item changes to author followed by the title. Any item you
have checked remains checked, and the item that is currently
selected remains selected. The CONTROL+S shortcut toggles
between sort by Title and Author.
5. When you are done, press ENTER to download the selected
file or files.
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Searching for and Downloading Magazines
To search for magazines:
1. Open the Online menu and choose Search for Magazines or
press the mnemonics ALT+N+M.
This opens the Online Search for Magazines dialog which
contains seven components, along with the OK and Cancel
commands.
2. In the Title Contains combo box (ALT+C), type part or all of a
title.
The box also contains a list of up to ten words from prior
searches. Use the UP/DOWN arrows to retrieve a word or
phrase from the list.
3. In the From list (ALT+F), select the starting month for the
searches.
4. TAB to the next box in which you type the starting date’s year.
5. In the To list (ALT+O), select the ending month for the search.
6. TAB to the next box in which you type the ending date’s year.
7. When you finish specifying your search parameters, they
appear in the Query text box (ALT+Q) and you’ll hear the
contents.
8. In the Sites list box (ALT+T) find the available Web sites for
your search. Each item has an associated check box.
By default, all sites are checked. To check or uncheck an item,
use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to go to the desired one, then
press SPACEBAR. Pressing CONTROL+Y lets you hear
whether or not an item is checked.
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9. When you are ready to download, press ENTER. To cancel,
press ESCAPE.
Kurzweil 1000 returns a list of available magazines. Use the
space bar to select the files you want to download.
You can also search the list of magazines by pressing
CONTROL+F. In the Find dialog that opens, type in a word or
partial word, then press ENTER to search the list. Kurzweil 1000
reads the first item it finds. Press F3 to hear the next matching
item, and SHIFT+F3 to hear the previous matching item.
Searching the Classic Literature CD
The Classic Literature CD Version 4 contains a collection of
electronic texts including literary classics, historical documents and
religious texts. You can search for a specific book or author from
this CD in much the same way as searching for books from Web
sites. The dialog you use is nearly identical to the Search for Books
dialog, except that the Web site list and combination searches are
not available.
To search for books on the CD:
1. Place the CD in your PC’s CD drive.
2. Open the Online menu and choose Search the Classic
Literature CD (ALT+N+C).
The Search the Classic Literature CD dialog opens with the
cursor in the Search list box.
3. Use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to specify search by Title
or Author. To go back to the Search list box, use ALT+S.
4. In the Contains combo box (ALT+C), type the author’s name or
title in whole or in part.
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Your query appears in the Query text box.
If you want to type a query or edit one, press ALT +Q to go to the
Query text box.
Depending on what you chose in the Search list box (Author or
Title), the box also contains a list of up to either your last ten
Author or Title searches. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW keys to
retrieve a name or title from the list.
5. When you’re done, press ENTER.
Kurzweil 1000 returns a list of available books. As in searching
for books from Web sites, use the space bar to select the files
you want to download.
You can also search the list of books by pressing CONTROL+F.
In the Find dialog that opens, type in a word or partial word, then
press ENTER to search the list. Kurzweil 1000 reads the first
item it finds. Press F3 to hear the next item, and SHIFT+F3 to
hear a previous item.
Automatic concatenation occurs when there is more than one
chapter or section in a book, or when a file is especially long, and
the chapters or sections have been placed in separate files on the
CD. Kurzweil 1000 links these files together in sequential order,
allowing you to read them in correct order through the chapters or
sections when you open them.
Notes:
• When searching for books on the CD, Kurzweil 1000 looks for
the CD in the first CD drive on your system. If it is unable to
locate the CD there, it asks if you want to specify a different
location. If you know the exact location, press Y for Yes to open
the File dialog; here you can navigate and select the location. If
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