Help: the BookStream book club
About the BookStream book club
You can read any of our Daisy audio books immediately through your internet
connection. Choose a book, add it to your personal bookshelf, select the stream
button and sit back. In a few seconds you will be reading the book of your
choice. Skip forward and back, close it when you've had enough and come back to
the same place at any time.
You can also elect to have a copy of the book sent to you on CD. Just select the
button to order a copy.
The BookStream book club is open to blind and partially sighted people living in
the United Kingdom.
You can read any of the Daisy audio books in our catalogue.
You can put up to 5 books on your bookshelf at any one time and you can keep a
book on the shelf for as long as you want. When you have finished reading it
use the remove button on your bookshelf. If you have chosen to have your book
on CD you will need to return it before you can remove the book. If you have 5
books on the bookshelf you will need to remove one before you can add another.
Annual subscription: £50 (payment by credit or debit card only)
Using the booksite
Adding books to the bookshelf
Find the book you want to read. Select the link from the results page to add it
to your bookshelf. You will reach a confirmation page giving the book title and
details of how many books you have on your bookshelf. The page also contains a
link back to your search results.
Removing books from the bookshelf
If you've read a book in streamed audio and not requested a CD copy then you can
remove the book from the shelf yourself at any time. Go to the bookshelf and
find the title you have finished with. Select the remove button associated with
the book (on the same line visually and all buttons have the book title in the
alt text). Select the button and the book will be removed from the bookshelf.
If you have got a CD copy of the book you'll need to send this back before you
can remove the book. Once you have asked for the CD copy to be sent the remove
button is no longer available for the book. Once we receive the CD back at RNIB
the system will automatically record this and the remove button for that book
will return to the bookshelf.
Playing streamed audio books
To listen to a streamed audio book you need to have installed the NetPLEXTALK
Daisy player on your PC. The player is provided as part of your subscription.
There are instructions on how to install it in the email you receive after
paying for your subscription. A help manual and a quick start guide for
NetPLEXTALK are available through your "My account" menu and you can read these
online or download them as Word documents.
To start to read a streamed audio book go to your bookshelf page (from the
bookshelf link in the navigation bar). All the books on the bookshelf will be
listed. There are up to three buttons for each book (play, remove and get CD).
To listen to a book select the play button for that book (visually on the same
line and the book title is contained in the alt text). You will start to read
the book from where you left off last time. You can also use the navigation
buttons within NetPLEXTALK to move to another chapter or to fast-forward
through the book. So if you've read some of the book on a hardware Daisy player
you can move to the correct chapter on your PC and continue listening from
there.
Renewing your subscription
Subscribers of the bookstream book club will be contacted by email four weeks before their current subscription is due to run out.
At this point, you will be provided with instructions as to how to renew and what the cost will be.
Payment must be made by adding the subscription renewal to your basket and then proceeding to the checkout (payment by credit or debit card only).
If you do not wish to renew, you must return any outstanding Daisy CDs (if applicable) within two weeks after your subscription has terminated.
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