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["tunecollector" <tunecollector@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anna,
Thank you very much for the info.  I will check out the BookPort at CSUN.

Jim

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From: blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindipod-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:58 PM
To: blindipod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindipod] Re: book players

Hi Jim,

I got to use a Victor Vibe and a Book Port for a couple weeks when I 
volunteered for the Mid Illinois Talking Book Project.  The Vibe 
looked like a nice product for playing standard and MP3 CDs and DAISY 
book CDs, but unfortunately, the one I was using didn't work 
right.  I believe the unit has been completely redesigned since.

The Book Port, on the other hand, was really impressive.  It reads 
text, braille, MS Word, HTML and braille files with synthetic speech 
and plays Audible content, DAISY from Bookshare, and MP3 files (I 
think that's the list).  It would have taken some time to learn all 
the features because all the buttons look the same, and most of them 
have at least two functions, depending whether you are reading or the 
unit is idle.  But I've never seen a machine index audio so well - I 
could move by sentence in an MP3 file, for instance, which is pretty 
remarkable.  You can have Audible books transferred to the player at 
in such a way that they will play faster than normal, which is also 
great.  If I were buying a DAISY player, I think I would get that one 
because it does so many things and is so small.

Cheers,
Anna

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