[bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?

  • From: "Donna Slater" <donna.slater@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:13:42 +0100

I just wish we had the equivalent service in the UK.


Regards

Donna

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?



I know this isn't strictly BookPort related, but Bookshare is, by far, the largest, most affordable, and diverse legal source of electronic books that is available to Americans. I'm sure a lot of people on here are on very limited incomes, but $50 a year for access to thousands of books is an awesome deal. I don't mean to be rude or impertinent, but I'm trying to figure out why someone absolutely couldn't afford Bookshare. I read several Bookshare books per week on my BookPort, and wouldn't trade that service for the world. If I've completely misunderstood anyone's point, I humbly apologize.



-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sandy Licht
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:28 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?


It is not an option for those of us who can't afford it, either.

At 09:45 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
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
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-----Original Message-----
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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
>
> --
> Bruce Toews
> E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: water_drinker@xxxxxxxx Web Site
> (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info
> on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com
>
> 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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