[bookport] Re: how do you use you book port?
- From: Chris Hill <hillco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:31:55 -0500
Nothing is perfect, multiple copies comes the closest. I have a flaky
256mb flash card, it went bad often enough that I put it aside and now
only use it for non-critical stuff.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:10:07 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I do have most on cds, but lost one to what I suppose was cd rot. Also
>the portability an usability of the book port turned me in this direction.
>
>However, thanks for your concern and will also continue saving books to
>cds as one more safeguard.
>
>Ed,
>
>At 10:02 PM 7/12/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>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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