Hey OPat, it is sad to loose a close friend. I also inherited stuff from a
friend after she passed on. Sigh. A brailler, a bunch of slates and
styluses and some braille books.
The opain is always there, smile, but you do learn to handle it, and move
on.
Course, antidepresents don't hurt either, smile.
But hugs are coming your way.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Advisory Council
www.guidedogs.com
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to
stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
-- Vance Havner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Ferguson" <fergent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Reading books downloaded from the loving
BookShare
Hi Sarah,
Thanks so much for writing.
My computer is a 2.8 GHZ with 512 MB DDR RAM a 60 GIG Hard drive, but
actually woops! I forgot I tried this on another computer. lol.
I don't think it was faster than your computer. We had it going all night
for 2 days when trying to make the one Star Wars book into an MP3.
I would be curious how long it takes you to do this, Sarah, but please
don't tie up your computer on my behalf. <smile> I'm going to call Kurzweil
tomorrow. I'm not in the frame of mind to deal with this today. I'm very
sad and depressed today. I am missing Carolyn Rhodes.
Sadly,
Pat Ferguson
At 02:11 PM 6/6/05, you wrote:
>I doubt you are doing anything wrong. I just think there is something
>about Windows 98 that makes MP3 creation slower, but I sure can't imagine
>what that factor might be. In Xp it seemed to take no time at all
>compared to what it took in 98. I really can't give you numbers because i
>didn't really look at the times long enough to be sure about them. This
>is mostly a subjective feeling about how long it took, but it seemed to
>take about as long as it would take to read the book to make the MP3s in
>98, whereas in XP it just seemed to be a reasonable amount of time for
>encoding the MP3s, comparable to CD ripping speeds.
>
>I usually don't do the whole book at once. I am just too impatient. I
>would have to make my computer do it at night while I wasn't using it. I
>just select a chapter at a time to be created usually. I made one whole
>book once by converting the book to a file format that lost the bookmarks
>that exist in daisy books for page navigation, and then searching for each
>chapter number and placing a bookmark in front of it, so that the mp3s
>could be broken in to chapters. See another reason why we need to retain
>the chapter headings and numbers in bookshare files.
>
>If you want me to, I suppose I could use the same sample of text to create
>an MP3 in 98 and in XP and actually compare the times taken for each. The
>times may not be very relevant to how long it takes on your computer
>because I am sure our computers are quite different. Mine is a 1Ghz AMD
>duran with 512 MB of very slow PC100 RAM. :-(
>What's yours?
>
>Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>Assistive Technology Instructor
>http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Ferguson"
><fergent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:11 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Reading books downloaded from the loving
>BookShare
>
>
>>Hi Sarah,
>>
>>Thanks so much for your email. Does it take forever to make MP3 files of
>>the books you make with Kurzweil? Like I said in a previous message it
>>took 2 days to make one Star Wars book into an MP3 file because it was
>>reading it and that is probably what slowed it down. I do this on a
>>separate computer with Windows 98 SE on it. I still think I'm doing
>>something wrong. <grin> lol.
>>
>>Thanks much.
>>
>>Pat Ferguson
>>
>>
>>
>>At 09:55 AM 6/5/05, you wrote:
>>>I make MP3s with Kurzweil, so that my husband and I can listen to books
>>>in the kitchen while we eat. I was annoyed by the slowness when I first
>>>started to make them, too. I first made them with Kurzweil in Windows
>>>98, because Kurzweil crashed less in 98. I have Xp on the same
>>>computer, and one time when I wanted to make another chapter of a book
>>>in to an MP3 I was using Xp and didn't want to bother switching. I
>>>found that it made the MP3s way faster and didn't bog down my computer
>>>while it did it, so I could still do other stuff. Now I never make MP3s
>>>in Windows 98.
>>>
>>>Now thanks to a reinstall of Xp and Kurzweil I don't have crashes
>>>anymore, so using it is no longer annoying for that reason, either.
>>>
>>>I'm sure I can't speed up your computers performance, but if you need
>>>any other MP3 creation tips for Kurzweil let me know.
>>>
>>>Have the people that have used Kurzweil as well as other software done
>>>testing to determine that the other software is faster? Could it be the
>>>codec being used? I also wonder if the voice being used makes a
>>>difference. I've only used via voice for books.
>>>
>>>Sarah Van Oosterwijck
>>>Assistive Technology Instructor
>>>http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Ferguson"
>>><fergent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: "Book Share Discuss" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>><bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:48 AM
>>>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Reading books downloaded from the loving
>>>BookShare
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>>I hope these aren't stupid questions, but I'm trying to deside how I
>>>>should read my books that I'm downloading from BookShare.org.
>>>>
>>>>Right now, I read them either on my Voice note or my computer, but I
>>>>wanted to make some of them into MP3's and I have had problems with
>>>>doing that with Kurzweil 1000. It's like it took almost a day to
>>>>convert one book to MP3, as it had to read it. One Star Wars book, it
>>>>took 2 days. lol.
>>>>
>>>>I know I'm doing something wrong, so please don't laugh too hard. lol.
>>>>
>>>>What is the best program to make mp3 files out of brf files.
>>>>
>>>>My next question is this:
>>>>
>>>>I have the PlexTalk recorder from Plextor and I love it! It was one
>>>>very expensive item that I bought after arriving home from Oregon in
>>>>June of 2003, and one loving item that Vernon brought out to me outside
>>>>on that night of June 24th, 2003, when we were hit with that awful f4
>>>>tornado.
>>>>
>>>>My question is this. If I download the daisy player from BookShare, can
>>>>I put these books on my PlexTalk and read them as well in Daisy format?
>>>>
>>>>Also, what book reader are you all using when reading books on your
>>>>computers?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks much.
>>>>
>>>>Pat Ferguson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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