Carl,
May I make some corrections on what you said about both the NLS player and
the stream. The NLS player also plays Bookshare daisy audio books and it
will play MP3 books if you set up a special folder for them. There's also,
I believe, some program or other from Newsline that permits you to hear
their newspapers and magazines on the NLS player. As for the volume of the
stream, I understand that the Stream 2 is louder. However, I have an
external speaker for the Stream 1 which cost about $20 and is certainly loud
enough.
Miriam
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Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 12:19 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Stream vs. Talking Book Player
Well Marsha, that's what they mean when they say, "That's what makes a horse
race".
It seems to me that the Victor Stream has different functions than the NLS
Digital Player, although both play talking books. The Victor that Cathy and
I were exposed to, by an elderly lady whose daughter had given it to her and
headed for Europe for six months, that Victor had very little volume, and
the woman had hearing aids that caused problems in listening comfortably.
Maybe it was a problem with how her daughter down loaded several books. But
since she was in Europe, we couldn't ask her. But the NLS player, while I
use it constantly, has some very real limitations, too. Like, you can only
read books from Bard.
but I'm actually more interested to learn about the sort of folks now
attending NFB meetings. Diapers on dog guides? Okay, first of all, does
this NFB chapter serve hard liquor?
Years ago I ran across a Movement that promoted dressing our pets.
But I've not heard of them in years. Maybe they went out to dress Pit
Bulls?
Diapers! But then I never liked clipping dogs ears or tails, or making
Poodles into little Prissies.
I do confess putting a jingle bell on my one cat, since he was a super
hunter, and we liked live birds in the trees as opposed to dead birds on the
front step. I did hear that some folks who use the miniature horses for
guide animals put diapers on them. I've never seen one, diapered or
not...miniature horses, not blind people. Although, along those lines, I am
beginning to see a day in my future when adult diapers could become a very
valuable assist.
And by the way, many of our clients are at an age where they need protection
in public, if they wish to avoid embarrassment. But diapers on my dog?
Talk about embarrassing! No self respecting dog is going to willingly allow
you to wrap it up in a didy.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/22/16, Martian.Lady <martian.lady@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hicomputer.
Perhaps I am missing something. I went to an NFB meeting on Saturday.
What a mess. One person suggested that people should put diapers on
dog guides.
That's not what this message is about but I just had to say that. I
must be missing something. They were saying how much better the
Talking Book player was so much better than the Victor Stream. They
were talking about how they hated the Stream.
I really love my Stream. It is the second best thing beyond my
I can do so many things with it.
Marsha
