A few days ago someone on the list mentioned that not all CompactFlash cards
are created equal, and I can attest to this. Though most of my experience
has been with Freedom Scientific's Pac Mate and Springer Design's Book
Courier, I quickly learned that the less expensive CF cards on the market
aren't always bargains. As a matter of fact, the only manufacturer whose
cards have given me no problem whatsoever is Sandisk. I can live with most
of the other brands, certainly when working with text-based files which are
small and rarely give problems, but large transfers from Audible.com really
require a card whose quality can be counted on. All cards are becoming less
expensive with the passage of time, but Sandisk products invariably cost
just a tad more than the competition. In my experience, though, they work
better in our particular adaptive devices for whatever reason.
Maybe the following should be addressed in a separate email, but I'd like to
see Book Port acquire a pronunciation dictionary. Entries would probably be
made through the Braille keypad. That might be a huge enhancement to
undertake, and I don't know if there may even be legal reasons why R.C.
Systems might not allow their speech synthesizer to be tampered with, but
it's an idea. The original Road Runner had an option in its transfer
software for downloading a dictionary, but no mention of this appeared in
the User's Guide and the concept never got any further than this. Legal
considerations? I do wonder. Would anyone else like to see a
user-definable pronunciation dictionary become available for Book Port?
David Bennett
