[bookport] Re: how do you use you book port?
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:02:40 -0500
If you want permanent storage, you should use something else. Flash
is okay, but a couple of good cd backups are a better backup bet.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:55:54 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have been collecting etext books for over 15 years and wanted to have a
>device to save them on away from the computer. I have lost many books to
>computer crashes and thought that this would be a safer way both to store
>and read these books.
>
>This entire process has been a learning process for me. I had never heard
>of the Book Port until recently and did not know what a compact flash
>card was until about a month ago.
>
>I wish that this thread had materialized a bit sooner. I would have
>still purchased the book port, but would have gotten several smaller
>compact flash cards and not the 2 gb one.
>
>The Double Talk speech is quite good, not as good as Artic Business with
>the sonyx card or later on with the Dectalk Express. However it is still
>worlds ahead of the Echo speech I first started out with on my Apple II E.
> If you want to get some idea what that was like, find a old classic
>Braille n Speak and listen to Echo in all its glory!
>
>I have not had much time to do much reading with the book port, since I
>have been digging out floppies, cds and dumping them into folders on my
>computer and transfering them onto the bookport.
>
>I really like text files much better than digital ones as I can play them
>as fast as I want and can get so many more onto a card. I can literally
>carry my personal library in one hand and can access its books and read
>them from the device containing them.
>
>What else could one want?
>
>Thanks APH for this little guy and also thanks to all who have helped
>get me up and running with it!
>
>Ed,
>
>
>
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