[bookport] Re: memos
- From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:39:42 -0400
I'd be in favor of improvements to the memo feature because it can be used
to take notes as we read.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: memos
> I guess I'm unclear as to why anybody would think that a device designed
to
> quote read books to us unquote, or a device on which one listens to crisp
> clean clear music or audible books, should even have a memo recording
> feature. In my opinion, rather than improving something that has nothing
to
> do with the mission of BookPort, it should just go away or be user
disabled.
> I'd be sad if APH spent time and resources improving on this feature.
>
> Marlaina Lieberg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 5:41 AM
> Subject: [bookport] memos
>
>
> > While just about everyone, including myself, agrees about the excellence
> of
> > the BookPort as it now stands, assuredly one of the most useful devices
> > released in recent years, we also concur, as do a p h people, that the
> voice
> > quality of memos is less than poor. From what one gathers from Larry,
> Robert
> > and Pamela, we are to be saddled with this problem, no matter future
> > improvements in software. This suggests that the sampling rate can only
be
> > changed if the mother board is accordingly revised, not an altogether
> > appealing prospect for those of us who already have units. I suspect
that
> > this unusually low rate was determined to save space on what was, then,
> > expensive flash cards. Given price drops for flash cards, most of us
well
> > beyond 64mb now, I suggest that a p h see to it that appropriate changes
> to
> > the hardware be made, preserving other features, so that memos are
> > intelligible in any place but a quiet room. Nearly every digital memory
> unit
> > sold, low-cost or more expensive, allows for varying sample rate, the
> better
> > quality the speech, the greater amount of memory. We could very easily
> have
> > good quality memory in the BookPort with now minimal cost to us in terms
> of
> > memory. A question. Why are the people at a p h so firmly committed to
> what
> > all of us recognize as a very week link in an otherwise very impressive
> > chain?
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry
> > jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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