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["Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, an alternative to the Bookport, and out of the same stable is the
book courier.  You can find out more about it from
www.bookcourier.com

Personally I found its lay-out better than the port and its transfer
software more intuitive to use.  

Cheers now.

Ian 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 08 March 2006 14:59
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Subject: [blindipod] Re: book players

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

Jim

-----Original Message-----
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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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