I think that there is some part of the market which has already been taken over by other players in the field, but I have to say that nobody seems to understand text manipulation and the ability to quickly move through it in the same way that the people who develop the bookport do. I will sing the praises of a competing product when it comes to how well it handles audio formats, but for text reading there is nothing any better than the bookport. I love the ability to move by character, word, sentence, paragraph and page. For me there is nothing better than the binary search when I get lost in a book. Being able to ascertain the percentage of the book or document I've read is fantastic. I hope APH does bring another offering to the market, and while that market will probably be smaller than it would've been for the original bookport two, I think there are still dedicated text users out there who believe in the creativity and the tech support that APH is known for.
Gary----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:09 AM Subject: [bookport] Bookport II?
I haven't heard anything about the possibility of a Bookport II for some time now. Has APH abandoned plans for such a product? Since APH began prototyping of a Bookport II, there have been several interesting introductions to this market. Perhaps APH sees the market as being flooded, making it difficult to introduce yet another such product.Anyway, I still enjoy my original Bookport and have read well over 150 books and many, many podcast on it. I think APH's software development team did asuperior job of introducing new features, fixing bugs, and generally being extremely responsive to user's needs and request. I'm sure if APH decidedto continue their efforts in this area that they would do a great job again.I would certainly understand, however, if there is to be no Bookport IIsince it's a big development effort and there is already a lot of very goodcompetition out there. Anyway, good luck in whatever transpires! --Pete
