The reason that I purchased Book Port instead of another device such as
Book
Courier, is because I wanted to be able to read RFB&D books as well as
electronic ones. I rarely read NLS books because it is easier for me to
download Bookshare books and read them either via Kurzweil or with Book
Port. As I understand it, Book Port is the only device that is able to
read
RFB&D books as well as electronic ones, and therefore, I hope that APH
will
manufacture Book Port II in the near future like they promised. I would
hate
to see this wonderful device no longer in existence.
Barbara
Yerba Bruja <yerbabruja@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perhaps no one missed it. I think people are trying to figure out what
other alternatives they can have with bookport or whatever, because
there's
a difference between shelling out $395 for a bookport and $1,395 for a
braille plus, in spite of how convenient, versatile and impressive the
latter is. Don't get me wrong. I love both. But I can see why people
would be looking for options involving cost below those of the braille
plus
or icon.
What I would be interested to know is if APH is at any point interested
in
developing pc based software capable of reading those nls books. Might be
a
less costly alternative, given that there wouldn't be hardware involved.
Not as portable as the bookport or braille plus but...
Marta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: future of bookport
> you all missed it! Didn't Pam say that another Braille device will soon
> support the NLS format?
>
> Curtis Delzer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Fiorello"
> To: "bookport"
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:00 AM
> Subject: [bookport] future of bookport
>
>
> Hi;
> While I'm not certain if we can really know about any future releases
> or
> not, bookport customers are "jumping ship" and going to players that
> will
> work with nls. As other players are approved more folks may choose to
> seriously look at them. Once the bulk of the market has gone elsewhere
> it
> might be to little to late to come out with a new and improved
> bookport.
> At
> the moment, however, I enjoying the good old outdated bookport.
> Richard
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