[bookcourier] Re: which one to buy?
- From: "Greg Epley" <gregepley@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:34:54 -0500
It also bears pointing out that generally - and do note the use of the word
"generally" here folks - that many persons who go blind later in life either
never learn braille or aren't very proficient at it. I can't justify the
cost of a notetaker, like many people; however, at the same time, I doubt
I'll ever learn braille at my age, because for me it's such a minor
inconvenience not knowing any braille. I have used the voice memo feature
of the BC, but doubt I'll use it in its present form much because it does
need some additional work to make it as easy to use as the tiny voice
recorder I currently use for such notes. Argueably, voice notes are not one
and the same as the notes on a notetaker, but some of us can't afford the
over priced notetakers, nor do we know braille, so are left with voice
notes.
-Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: [bookcourier] Re: which one to buy?
>I guess it's ok as long as, like you said the primary functionality remains
> the focus. I much prefer a qwerty keyboard as opposed to any kind of
> braille
> input, since for me, that is much faster.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Otten" <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookcourier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:23 PM
> Subject: [bookcourier] Re: which one to buy?
>
>
>> Quite honestly, money being tight as it is, I'm in favor of putting as
> much functionality on devices as is possible, keeping in mind the original
> function the device is intended for. Telling somebody to go buy a 2000
> plus
>> dollar and up notetaker, if they can get the functionality they need on a
> device costing less than a quarter as much flies in the face of economic
> reality. If the bookport did Grade II instead of just computer braille,
> I'd
>> seriously consider one, because I personally have no use for email and
>> web
> surfing on a note taking device and would love to find something
> relatively
> inexpensive to replace the transtype I use to own. Springer have
>> made it clear they don't plan to do anything along those lines, so I
>> know
> such functionality is not to be forthcoming in the BC.
>> mary
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