Re: [book_talk] book review
- From: Audrey <waterdiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:22:22 -0500
Yep, I have a little tiny rectangular matchbox size thingamajig with an eighth
inch plug that has a little curly-q in its short lenghth. It is called an "A
120s Bluetooth Music Adapter" it is Jabra brand. It is wireless, & comes with a
USB charging cord. It takes it a while to charge, but once it's charged it will
last about 7 hours. I only need to pair my bluetooth headset to it in order to
hear a device that did not have bluetooth built into it. So for instance, I
can plug the little adapter jack into a bigger adapter jack, and plug that into
my old TV that is from the sixties, that had a big headphone jack on the front
of it, like for the old long curly cord headphones. That way I can listen to it
thru my motorola wireless bluetooth headset which is really comfy and not have
to blast the TV across the room over the sound of the water and pots and pans.
It gives me a little privacy since I live in an apartment. Same with my
computer. I can just pop the adapter right into the little eighth inch
earphone, or line out jack on the computer, and either leave Jaws reading a
long text, or Kurzweil reading a long brf file, or even mp3's, or Overdrive
Media player reading something.
Lately I've been converting some brf's to text, then sharing them with an
iphone app, like USB Disk Pro, or Evernote, and opening them with whichever one
of those, some can open rar's & zip's, then using the button in the app to open
with another app, in this case, Voice Dream app, which works with several
others like drop box, etc.
Since my phone is bluetooth capable already, I don't need the adapter for that.
I just pair my phone with my motorola headset directly, get the volume and
speed how I want it, lock the screen and walk off to the other room, or the
patio, leaving the phone in a safer place. I've used my adapter with the
library digital player too. Had my phone in my pocket or backpack waiting for
the bus.
Only place I can't headset is in the tub, or the pool. Has to be standard away
from the water there. *grins* there is some superduper waterproof iphone case
with earbud adapters and all, but it is high dollar. I just have to sing in
the pool. Lol, Aud
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:24 PM, "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rosemarie. you can get wireless headsets which will work with any item
> that has an earphone jack. I currently have a set that I use on my TV when I
> want to listen to something and either work in the study or go on my
> exercise bike. The wireless headphones can range in price it all depends on
> how much you want to spend and what sort of range you need them to have. You
> can get them at most electronics store.
>
> With bluetooth headsets I think you need to have a product that has a
> bluetooth transmitter so it might be easier to go for the wireless option
> depending on what you need to plug them into.
>
> Hope this helps.
> From Shaz.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 4:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
>
>
> |I really must check into getting one of those Bluetooth gizmos if there is
> a
> | way to use it with my computer or db player.
> |
> | Late at night I don't usually have trouble reading a book without my mind
> | wandering, unless I forget to set the sleep setting and am so tired I fall
> | asleep. When sitting somewhere or at my computer I have to do something
> with
> | my hands or my mind wanders all the time. I used to do a lot of knitting
> and
> | crocheting, but mostly now I do sudoku puzzles. If one gets too hairy, I
> can
> | easily pause the computer or the DB player. When Doing house stuff it's a
> | bit annoying to move around and be fiddling with the volume on the player
> or
> | running it back.
> |
> | Rosemarie
> |
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | On Behalf Of Audrey
> | Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 12:10 PM
> | To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> |
> | I am so happy to have finally hit upon a way to listen to books again
> | without continually falling asleep and or mind wandering far far away,
> lol.
> | Usually leaning is involved, with my hands being busy, but not in a way
> that
> | requires too much concentration. So, bluetooth on while I'm cooking or
> doing
> | dishes, or some mundane cleaning thing that is relatively quiet. It helps
> | that I can put some stuff on my phone now with that Voice Dream app, and
> be
> | outside, like on the patio, building something, or just perching for a
> | little bit. I can't perch for long either though. Gotta move around
> some.
> | Bluetooth works for me back and forth, in and out on the patio. If I had
> a
> | garden, that would be a good spot. I like radio & podcasts when I'm in
> the
> | tub. No headsets there of course. Just kind of have to note where I left
> | off for the rinse, lol, pause or go back during drying off. Also like a
> | drink in the tub, heheh! Pepsi, hot chocolate, Splash, or a strawberry
> | daquiri. Really love that Voice Dream app. Have made a Melanie Safka,
> | Shirley Bassey, and Hocus Pocus channel on Pandora. Hee, Aud
> |
> | Sent from my iPhone
> |
> | On Apr 3, 2013, at 12:11 PM, "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | wrote:
> |
> | > That's really too bad. Perhaps an hour a day would work as if you'd
> | > just tuned in a radio program?
> | >
> | > I don't read many long books. They are a bit daunting. Maybe it's
> | > thinking about all those invested hours. I've solved the problem with
> | > some because they were collections of independent short pieces and I'd
> | > read one or two every so often as if picking up a magazine.
> | >
> | > Rosemarie
> | >
> | >
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | > On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:26 AM
> | > To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | > Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >
> | > yeah, but i have to start listening, have had this for maybe 4 years,
> | > and just can't sit long enough to listen, ahh well, such is life, Don
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | > To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:19 PM
> | > Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >
> | >
> | >> Fantastic collection. That's a lot of listening.
> | >>
> | >> Rosemarie
> | >>
> | >>
> | >> -----Original Message-----
> | >> From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | >> On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | >> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 2:51 PM
> | >> To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >>
> | >> it was shepherd,you'd know it, he was great, like i said i got all 600
> or
> | >> more hours on i think, MP3, OR CD, not sure which, but all i have
> to
> | >> do
> | >> is start listening to it, Don
> | >> ----- Original Message -----
> | >> From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 3:32 PM
> | >> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >>
> | >>
> | >>> You've some good reading ahead then.
> | >>>
> | >>> I've forgotten which book it's in, but one story he tells is about a
> | >>> family that moved in next door. They were an extended family that
> | >>> included many adults, a whole herd of children, an and a pack of
> | >>> dogs. It told of one holiday when his mother roasted a giant ham, or
> | >>> maybe it was a turkey, and the pack of dogs nearly demolished their
> | >>> house getting at it! It was fabulously funny. A few years back I
> | >>> caught the end of a short film clip of the scene. Oh my. It was just
> | >>> great. The narrator of the events may have been Jean Shepherd
> | >>> himself.
> | >>>
> | >>> Rosemarie
> | >>>
> | >>>
> | >>> -----Original Message-----
> | >>> From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >>> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | >>> On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | >>> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:16 PM
> | >>> To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >>> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >>>
> | >>> RoseMarie, this was the first one i've read by him, he sure could
> | >>> tell a story, Don
> | >>> ----- Original Message -----
> | >>> From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >>> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >>> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 2:31 PM
> | >>> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review
> | >>>
> | >>>
> | >>>> I've read several books by this wonderful author. Not this one
> though.
> | >>>> I'll
> | >>>> add it to my book list and keep a sharp eye out for it.
> | >>>>
> | >>>> A truly funny man.
> | >>>>
> | >>>> Rosemarie
> | >>>>
> | >>>>
> | >>>> -----Original Message-----
> | >>>> From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >>>> [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> | >>>> On Behalf Of Don Marr
> | >>>> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 6:52 AM
> | >>>> To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >>>> Subject: [book_talk] book review
> | >>>>
> | >>>> a fistful of fig newtons by Jean shepherd,
> | >>>> first the anotation,
> | >>>> Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most
> | >>>> notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie
> | >>>> Parker and his quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A
> | >>>> Christmas Story. But he was so much more, a comic Garrison
> | >>>> Keillor-like figure whose unique voice transcended the airwaves and
> | >>>> affected a whole generation of nostalgic Americans. A Fistful of
> | >>>> Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd--sidesplittingly funny and
> | >>>> sardonically irreverent. Here are Shepherd's wild and wacky
> | >>>> adventures, a dozen truer-than-life tales of college life on the G.I.
> | Bill, of "Kidhood"
> | >>>> in Hammond, Indiana, of tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike, and of
> | >>>> other familiar defeats and humilations. It is a brilliant comic
> | >>>> assessment of American life--all of them delivered in Jean
> | >>>> Shepherd's witty, classy,
> | >>> unforgettable style.
> | >>>>
> | >>>>
> | >>>> now my comments, this was a great and funny book, as i was growing
> | >>>> up in the 50's and 60's, used to lie in bed at night and listen to
> | >>>> Jean on W O R in Ny, guy was a riot, he was a real good
> | >>>> storyteller, anyone who has a chance to llisten to him, or his
> | >>>> radio shows, or read his books, go for it, you won't be
> | >>>> disappointed, , Don
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
>
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