That is really a shame. I hope they can find a way around this some day. I
would like to see this opened up for Canada and the rest of the world for
that matter.
--Best regards,
--Rick Alfaro
--rick.alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:44 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?
Well, again, Bookshare is not an option to us non-Americans.
Bruce
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Rick Alfaro wrote:
> I actually prefer audio books as well, but they can get expensive and
> there is so much available on BookShare and they are so simple to
> download and transfer to the BookPort that I find myself doing that
> more often. I learned Braille late in life, so I'm a very slow
> Braille reader. I used to read the BookShare stuff in Braille on my
> Braille Lite and took forever to read an entire book. Now, with the
> BookPort, I can zip through 1 or 2 books in a week using its text to
speech.
>
>
>
>
> --Best regards,
>
> --Rick Alfaro
> --rick.alfaro@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Bruce Toews
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:44 PM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?
>
> If there's one thing I've learned today, it's that, in prefering audio
> books, *I'm* in the minority ... at least around here. Which is fine.
> The beauty of BP is that you can have it both ways.
>
> Bruce
>
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> Bruce Toews
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>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Natalie wrote:
>
>> Hi. To answer your questions, I don't listen to audio books on my
>> bookport mainly because I really don't like audio books much. I
>> would rather use the text to speech. I know I'm probably strange
>> that way, but I find that humans read to slow. As for how long I use
>> my Bookport, probably about two hours every day because I now read
>> while walking on my treadmill and then read with it before going to
>> bed at
> night.
>> Natalie
>> At 06:50 AM 7/12/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>> So far most of the time I use my Book Port for reading audio MP3
>>> books. I was wondering if people could give me feedback on the
>>> following
> questions.
>>>
>>> What percent of the time do you listen to audio books?
>>> What percent of the time do you use text-to-speech to listen to
>>> books or materials?
>>>
>>> But percent of the time do you listen to music MP3's?
>>>
>>> How often do you use your Book Port?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback -- Jim -- Michigan
>>>
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