Were you contacted personally Dean and by what method, e.g. telephone, e-mail, braille letter, print letter? Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: Dean Wilcox To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:53 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Talking Book Library I was contacted and applied for a the upgrade and received it. I like the machine a lot, it works very well and gives me the feeling of a well thought out book player that happens to talk and not something that was rattled together over night. It has a USB port for a USB drive, an SD card slot and a gig of internal memory, oh and yes it plays CDS too! You can move books from one media to another, so you can move a book from CD to an SD card or USB drive. It is very nice also that you can create MP3s from an audio CD to move when moving it to another type of media although this takes a little longer as it has to create the MP3s as it goes along. All in all a good thumbs up from me. At 15:51 06/05/2009, you wrote: I am wondering how many members on this list use the RNIB Talking Book Library and ow many of those members were contacted about the new type of Talking Book machine which can be used with USB Flash Drive. I understand that there is a pilot going on at present with regard to this machine but equally I understand that no existing member of the library will be entitled to one of these new books, only new members will receive them. For those of you in the pilot, what do you think of the machine and out of interest did the Talking Book Library contact you directly about this pilot scheme or did you hear about it through Read-on, the Talking Book Library CD sent out to members. Eleanor ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1465 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.12.18/2098 - Release Date: 05/05/09 08:05:00 -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1466 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message