The MP3 files will work with this Bookport already. The new digital format NLS is using will work with the new Bookport. This is what Larry said on Main Menu... just not when it is released. He made a comment that BP2's firmware would probably be updated to work with the NLS files before that format would be released to the blind community. No need for panic here. I would like to be able to load the Overdrive files on the Bookport, also. It seems with all I have to read on the BP, I never can finish the Overdrive books in time.
At 10:21 AM 5/24/2007, lana wrote:
Sounds like a good enough idea to me. A lot of states don't have access to overdrive audio, and why couldn't regular talkingbooks be put onto mp3 files and downloaded to readers. Yes, I know that something like that is in the wind, but a long time from now, and we still don't know for sure it will work with the new bookport. I'm probably wrong about this; since it seems so out of date; so tell me where I've gone wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:43 AM Subject: [bookport] Re: Returning the Bookports' back to the library tomorrow will be sad. GRIN. > Something sure is strange here. Perhaps the Pennsylvania library is > putting MP3 files on CF cards and testing the Bookport as a new > medium? If that is what they are doing, they are sure behind the > times. You would think someone in the library who is in charge of > that sort of thing would also update their Bookports' firmware. Sure > sounds messed up to me. And calling it Beta testing? Sounds a bit > like Rip Van Winkle to me. > > At 09:54 AM 5/23/2007, lana wrote: > >So why test something that's been around years? > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Woody Anna Dresner" <wadresner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:58 AM > >Subject: [bookport] Re: Returning the bookports back to the library tomorrow > >will be sad. GRIN. > > > > > > > Hi Lana, > > > > > > I don't think there's even a working prototype of the Bookport 2 yet; I'm > >almost certain they're using the original Book Port. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Anna > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:56 PM > > > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: [bookport] Re: Returning the bookports back to the library > >tomorrow will be sad. GRIN. > > > > > > so now you've used it, will it play audible? Will it play those pesky > > > overdrive books? How usable is the word processor? Since I am in the > >middle > > > of what we shall call an adventure transfering music through my pc to my > >DS > > > 50, I've come to REALLY appreciate Book Port's transfer software. Do > > > Audible books still take so long to convert? > > > You just thought you were having fun, didn't you. Grin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Scott Erichsen" <pianoman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:40 PM > > > Subject: [bookport] Re: Returning the bookports back to the library > >tomorrow > > > will be sad. GRIN. > > > > > > > > > > So, are you saying this was a bookport2? > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > > > On Behalf Of The Kolesar Brothers > > > > Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2007 1:39 PM > > > > To: Book Port Mailing List > > > > Subject: [bookport] Returning the bookports back to the library tomorrow > > > > will be sad. GRIN. > > > > > > > > Hi to all, from Ron Kolesar. > > > > I figured out what was wrong with the one unit assigned to us to beta > >test > > > > for NLS. The first unit that we couldn't use, I got it back out and I > >was > > > > able to set the date and time. But on the second unit that we could use > > > but > > > > couldn't set the date and time on. Here is what was wrong with it. I > >would > > > > say that the unit needs to be looked over with a fine tooth comb. Well > > > both > > > > units need to be looked at. But unit one I heard what I was suppose to > > > hear. > > > > > > > > But in unit two I only heard a tone like beap and never was able to set > > > the > > > > date and time in that unit. But learned how to use the unit. As well > > > enjoyed > > > > > > > > the book Beach road by one of my favorite authors Mr. James Patterson. > >It > > > > was a huge book. GRIN. > > > > But from this beta testers opinion. It looks like it will be a nice unit > > > to > > > > come. I got three of my friends to also become beta testers. I hope they > > > > enjoy the unit as much as I am going to miss my unit. Like I told the > > > > library, the only thing that is missing is a radio. GRIN. But it is a > >nice > > > > compact unit. With several nice features in the unit. With each user > >there > > > > will be several different ways to use this little unit I bet. > > > > Ron Kolesar > > > > > > > > Matt and his sweet little bit of honey. > > > > Ron and Boz and Terry who is retired but still scrappy in her old age. > > > > KOLESAR16417@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/815 - Release Date: > >5/22/2007 3:49 PM > > Sandy Licht > > Jeremiah 29:11 - 14 A . > 11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are > plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. > 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me > in earnest, you will find me when you seek me. 14 I will be found by > you," says the Lord. > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.7/816 - Release Date: 5/23/2007 3:59 PM
Sandy Licht Jeremiah 29:11 - 14 A .11 For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13 If you look for me in earnest, you will find me when you seek me. 14 I will be found by you," says the Lord.
