[access-uk] Re: Book Courier

Thanks for that information James.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James O'Dell 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:36 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: Book Courier


  Hi Wendy

  It depends what you want in terms of mp3s.  There are a number of file 
sharing networks out there - i.e. people have saved music from CDs in mp3 
format and make these files freely available to other users of that file 
sharing network.  There  is nothing *technically* illegal about this, but the 
problem occurs when people start using these networks to share copyright 
material - as most users do, in practice.
   The record industry is attempting to clamp down on some of these networks 
and their users, and the emphasis at the moment is on people who make copyright 
material available for others to download.  There are a number of legal sites 
where you can pay to download music, but the disadvantage of these is that most 
of them don't use mp3 format, since the mp3 format doesn't give them the 
ability to protect their files so that they can't be distributed to people who 
haven't paid for them.  Napster, for example, whose operations are now fully 
legal, use a protected form of WMA (Windows Media Audio) format and as far as I 
know this won't play on the Book Courier at the moment. There are a few sites 
offering a more limited selection of mp3s for legal, paid download.

  Alternatively, you can convert music you have on CDs that you have bought 
into mp3 format (there is an almost endless number of free utilities that will 
do this), and these files would then be ideal for use on the book Courier.  If 
you are a member of the RNIB talking book service, I understand that the book 
Courier will soon support their Daisy digital format, if it doesn't already.  
You also probably know that you can use the book courier to read plain 
electronic text files, or text that you have converted into mp3 format using 
text-to-audio software like the utility built into kurzweil 1000.

  Hope this helps

  James
  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: The Dundas Family 
    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:52 PM
    Subject: [access-uk] Re: Book Courier


    Thanks george. Are there any particularly good internet sites for 
downloading MP3's as I've heard that most sites are not accessible?

    Thanks.

    Wendy
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: George Bell 
      To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:54 PM
      Subject: [access-uk] Re: Book Courier


      Hi Wendy,

      (Commercial interest declared here)

      The BookCourier was designed from the ground up as a fully accessible 
book reader for people with little or no vision, so you should have no 
difficulty using it.

      George Bell
      Techno-Vision Systems Ltd



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        From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of The Dundas Family
        Sent: 30 March 2005 12:21
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [access-uk] Book Courier


        Hi all

        I was wondering whether the new Book Courier is fully accessible. I am 
thinking of purchasing one but don't want to spend the money unless it's really 
worth it. Are there any inaccessible features or disadvantages on it and can 
MP3's be downloaded from most sites? Is it easy to use?

        Any comments would be much appreciated.

        Many thanks.

        Wendy Dundas


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