we need VERY basic how-tos

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pberinstein
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Post by pberinstein »

How about some diagrams or other pix to go with the text?
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harvey
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Post by harvey »

If the specific addition being discussed is instructions for downloading files,
then they belong on the How To Get LibriVox's Audio Files page rather
than the How To Listen page.
http://www.librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToGetLibriVoxAudioFiles

There is now a page explaining how to download files on MS Windows:
http://www.librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToGetLibriVoxAudioFiles/MSWindows

I might add some screen shots, but I'd prefer to have the mouse pointer
in them but the Print Screen button doesn't capture the pointer. Any one
know how to do this? Say, in terms of a good, free program?
Last edited by harvey on May 3rd, 2006, 3:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by kri »

harvey wrote:If the specific addition being discussed is instructions for downloading files,
then they belong on the How To Get LibriVox's Audio Files page rather
than the How To Listen page.
http://www.librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToGetLibriVoxAudioFiles

There is now a page explaining how to download files on MS Windows:
http://www.librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToGetLibriVoxAudioFiles/MSWindows
At the very least there should be a link from the How to Listen page to the how to get the files page.
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Post by harvey »

kri wrote:At the very least there should be a link from the How to Listen page to the how to get the files page.
Yes, indeed. This is already done. (:-)
Yakumo
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Post by Yakumo »

The thought that occurs to me imediatly upon reading these posts is, If people are having trouble downloading files, then that probably means that they do not have brodband and are stuck with something more like dialup.

after figuring out how to download a file, they will probably wonder why it takes so long to download, which would make it a necessity to provide smalller files if we want librivox to reach this group of visitors.

from a bitrate of 64bits to 128bits, we are talking about double the size. I recomend that we advise them to download the 64bit files only.

edit: ah.. already done.
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