[bookport] Re: How do you use your Book Port?
- From: "Joni Colver" <joni.colver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:50:42 -0500
Chris I don't read any technical books, just novels and nonfiction reading
for pleasure. I occasionally have found problems when recipes appear in
books and they seem to read much better with the Daisy than the .brf copy
from bookshare so that may be the case for technical books too. I can't
verify that hypothesis, but, I can say when I have encountered Braille
translation problems that I found annoying, the Daisy version worked much
better in those cases.
Joni
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <WSmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:44 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use your Book Port?
There is only one file you need to transfer if using DAISY books from
Bookshare.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:36 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use your Book Port?
I'm not interested in daisy because of the multiple files issue. .brf
are okay for light reading, but anything of a technical nature tends
to get hacked up pretty badly by translation back out of braille.
Braille can have the same representation for two different types of
data and you have to figure it outk backtranslators aren't that
intelligent. An example of this is a car magazine talking about a v6
engine. Back translation will invariably turn it into a v ble f
engine. Really annoying.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:23:35 -0500, you wrote:
>Jim I still have the original 64 MB compactflash card that came with my
Book
>Port a year ago. If I ever decide to try Audible books or MP3 I would
>probably buy a larger card but I don't need one at the moment.
>
>Chris the brf and Daisy files from bookshare work great with the Book
Port.
>The brf files work just like Web Braille. The daisy books unpack into
>multiple files which is why I like the brf files generally. I get most
of
>my books from bookshare. I have around 200 on my computer now waiting
for
>transfer to Book Port and the majority are bookshare books, with a few
Web
>Braille books mixed in.
>
>Joni
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Hill" <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:25 AM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: How do you use you Book Port?
>
>
>I don't know why people are buying the big cards. I suspect most of
>them have never had a flash card go flaky or they'd be more careful
>about investing in them. I figure they'll always get cheaper, so even
>though one would be nice, no reason to hurry.
>
>I scan many of my books, and get others off of web braille. Last I
>heard you had to use either braille or daisy for bookshare, and they
>didn't seem to have much I wanted anyway. Braille wouldn't be bad,
>but daisy text is a solution looking for a non-existent problem and
>inconvenient to boot.
>
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:59:12 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone:
>>Sound pretty much like most people use their Book Port to do
>text-to-speech. I'm trying the text-to-speech more often now. I like
the
>fact that you can easily move files quickly to the Book Port. If most
>people who've responded use text-to-speech, wire so many people
purchasing
>large 2GB and 4GB CompactFlash cards?
>>Audible and other audio books don't seem to be used that much.
>>Here's one more question.
>>Where do most people get their books for reading? Bookshare?
>>thanks -- Jim Nuttall
>>
>>Richard Ring <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I have read audible books with my Bookport, however the majority of
the
>time I use text-to-speech.
>>I can speed that up, and for that reason, I tend to prefer synthesized
>speech.
>>Weird, eh?
>>I listen at least a couple of hours a day, much more on weekends.
>>I have listened to music, and probably will again, but it is not my
primary
>reason for having a Bookport.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of James Nuttall
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:50 AM
>>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [bookport] How do you use you Book Port?
>>
>>
>>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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