Handy summary. I looked at all of these a few months back, and your post reminds me of why I went with the BookSense: it was the only one that I am certain will do Audible books. -----Original Message----- From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 8:54 AM To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts There are actually four players in the same market: The Victor Reader Stream, the Plex Talk Pocket, the Book Sense, and the Book Port Plus. For the most part, they offer the same basic features. The Book Sense recognizes more formats than the others, but the Pocket and Book Port do a better job of recording. The Stream uses its own recording format which has to be converted if you want to use it on any other device. The Book Sense, Pocket, and Book Port can record in WAV or MP3 format, but the Book Port and Pocket can also convert to DAISY. All four players can play NLS, Learning Ally, and Bookshare books. The reading voices on the Pocket, Stream and Book Port are the same, but the reading voices on the Book Sense are different. On the Book Sense, the reading and navigation voices are the same, but the other three players use different voices for the navigation than they use for reading. I have all four players and to me, they all have a feature or two I like and a feature or two I do not like. If I'm going to listen to a Bookshare book, I use the Book Sense because I like the TTS voice on it better. There were some issues with the earlier release of the firmware that made reading Bookshare books a bit of a hassle, but the later releases have fixed those problems. If I want to record something, I use the Pocket or the Book Port. I definitely do not use the stream for that. HTH. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margaret Condy Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 3:37 PM To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [real-eyes] Re: blind podcasts Why do you wish you had gone for the PlexTalk instead of the BookSense? I have a BookSense and I'm not thrilled with it, but I thought that the Victor Stream was its direct competitor, not the PlexTalk. Margaret, who reads all these postings but almost never comments. On 30-Jun-2012 12:16 PM, Mitchell D. Lynn wrote: > Did the BookSense and wish I had gone for the PlexTalk. > > I've looked at the Book Share stuff. Does have a lot of good reads > there, but don't want to mess with the membership/subscription fees. > Translated, that means there are still unpossessed Mozart recordings > with my name on them. And I prefer human readers whenever possible. > > To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes