BARD Mobile
The crescent moon shaped button in the Now Reading Screen in BARD Mobile.
What is the Sleep Button?
Use this button to access more information about a title in a list.
What is the Book Details button?
This drop down menu allows access to the wish list, reading history, subscriptions, and account settings.
What is My BARD?
This is what NLS calls the skill that accesses BARD from a Smart Speaker.
What is My Talking Books?
Richard Gilmore is a current patron who is proficient in using his PC, but he struggles using the BARD web application when it comes to downloading, unzipping, and transferring books to a cartridge.
What is BARD Express?
BARD Mobile is available on these 2 platforms.
What are iOS and Android?
Select this Main Menu button when you want to search the collection for books about animals.
What is the Browse by Subject button?
Select this link from the BARD Main Page to search for books by a particular narrator.
What is the Advanced Search for Books link?
This is what you would say to search for books in the Harry Potter series.
What is Books in series Harry Potter?
Lane Kim is a new patron who has a smartphone that she uses regularly.
What is BARD Mobile?
Bookshelf, Get Books, Settings, Now Reading.
What are the tabs in BARD Mobile?
This display mode allows users to work with multiple titles at a time using associated checkboxes.
What is Advanced Mode?
Open this collapsible menu to sort your wish list by the priority you set.
What is the Refine your wish list collapsible menu?
Use one of these two terms to begin reading a book from a list.
What is Read or Play?
New patron Luke Danes is exclusively a braille reader.
What is BARD on the web?
Use this button to get more information about a title in BARD Mobile.
What is the More Info button?
Access a list of keyboard commands from this menu.
What is the help menu?
Open this collapsible menu to download a book from a list.
What is the Take Action collapsible menu?
This NLS sponsored program is held on the third Thursday of each month.
What is Smart Speaking to the Smart Speaker?
Current patron Taylor Doose receives traditional service by mail and uses a DA1 talking book player. He receives a commercial talking book player as a gift and want to try BARD.
What is BARD on the web?
This setting in BARD Mobile allows the user to customize the preferred format shown when accessing the recently added, most popular, and browse magazines options in the Get Books tab.
What is the show me setting?
Use this keyboard key to launch the BARD Express player.
What is the F2 key?
This is where I go to tell BARD to alert me by email when new issues of subscribed books or magazines are available.
What is Account Settings?
Say this to access a list of books you read with My Talking Books.
What is Streaming History?
Current patron Michel Gerard speaks fluent French and English--with a heavy accent. He has signed up for the My Talking Books Alexa Skill, but is struggling with the speaker understanding his accent.
What is BARD Mobile?