[QUOTE=Darqref;2606882 NO. the current format is NOT DAISY, it's some different digital format. [/quote]
The DAISY Consortium would beg to differ with you.
http://www.loc.gov/nls/specs/1205_Final_nov15_1_07.pdf is an explanation of why Daisy files from BARD won't play in "normal" Daisy players.
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Daisy players are NOT allowed to play the current digital downloads from the National Library for the Blind (at least in the USA).
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NLS offers three readers to patrons. However, patrons can use their own device, if the manufacturer has certified the device with NLS. The process of certification is even more mired in bureaucratic junk that the normal government bureaucracy.
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There is a current experimental effort to convert from an Epub to a braille machine readable format, but I don't know how successful they've been.
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Conversion to Grade 1 Braille is straightforward. If you read more than one book on programming, you can do it. Conversion to Grade 2 Braille is slightly more complicated, but still fairly trivial. In both instances, the only hard part is converting presentation markup.
Amber