[bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:35:12 -0500
I doubt nls will be dropping people anytime soon, daisy can be both
synthetic speech and or audio. I don't think the older patrons would
stand for digital.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:30:18 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>10 4 on that!!!!
>That is especially true if you are not someone who saves the books they read
>like me.
>I know that the NLS is going to a daisy or some kind of digital format, and
>I for one, am going to miss human narration, as I have not yet heard
>anything that is digital that even comes close.
>I know and understand why they are doing it, it is a matter of finance and
>the $, but that still does not change the facts.
>
>Otto
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro
>Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:41 AM
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?
>
>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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