[bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?

  • From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:37:03 -0500

You are right!
I work with at least three people that purchased Bookports after hearing
me and my best friend go on and on about them!
If I were rich I'd buy another one just so that when mine dies I'd have
it.
Talk about withdrawal!


-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandy Licht
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 4:13 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?


I think we should get a commission for every BP we 
sell!  (Smile!!)  In the 18 months I have owned mine, I don't believe 
I have heard any real complaints from anyone on list.  There are 
features we would like for it to have, but I have never heard anyone 
say they didn't like the Bookport.

For graduate school work, I wouldn't want to use the BP as a 
notetaker, but, from the sound of it, it would be better than that 
other gadget, whatever it is called.

At 03:36 PM 8/25/2006, you wrote:
>You can't sell me on the Bookport!  I use it every day, and I am not
>just saying that.  I love to read, and I can't imagine life without it.
>I have music and books with me  and I simply can't think of a more
>useful device to own.
>Yes, it resets, and I have had to reformat a card once, but the
Bookport
>has given me my own personal library and it has also given me some good
>old rock 'n roll!  How can life get any better than that?
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandy Licht
>Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:20 PM
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?
>
>
>I, for one, don't like the slate and stylus.  I never did, and I grew
>up with one.  If I had to go back there... give me a Perkins Brailler
>any day, in spite of its bulk and weight.  Sure.  Technology fails,
>but, ah... when it works!!!!!  Just to sort of keep this on
>topic...  The Bookport is one of the most reliable peaces of
>equipment I have ever had the good fortune to use!!!!!!!  It needs a
>reset now and then, and sometimes cards need to be reformatted, but
>it's like the Energizer Bunny.  It keeps going and going...
>
>At 03:09 PM 8/25/2006, you wrote:
> >That's a little ageist if you ask me.  Granted, many post-1980s
> >people have been taught to rely on technology than the old slate n
> >stylus, that's not to say non-techie skills haven't been taught as
> >well.  Not to mention the complete disregard for reality in a
> >statement such that puts invincibility and security with technology
> >in the same sentence.  We all know technology is going to and does
> >fail on a regular basis, and we all make adjustments.  Voluntary
> >braille courses are being sought out against the wishes of IEPs and
> >the like.  I just acquired a slate and stylus for the first time two
> >years ago and I love it.  But there are ways to be more efficient.
> >
> >Not that I'm trying to appear uppity in any way.  I understand and
> >value where technology has come from and is going and I understand
> >and value the tride and true methods of madness we all hold near and
> >dear.  But that's not to denegrate another's way of accomodating life
>to life.
> >
> >I love my talking alarm clock, but my braille watch is more
> >reliable.  Love my laptop, but I know how to print on the sly too.
> >
> >It's all in which method your madness feels safest with, eh?
> >- Jeanette
> >
> >ps. - the irony in all of this is that most blind techno stuff isn't
> >available.  It's not on the open market and inaccessible based on a
> >variety of factors including socio-economics and geography.  It
> >would be great if we could have this discussion in a day and age
> >when *everyone* really was trying to choose between a laptop and a
> >pacmate, but the reality is most blind folk don't have equal access
> >to a computer unless they live in a heavily-advocated-for state.
> >
> >On 8/25/06, Richard Ring
>
><<mailto:ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
> >Well, I am  someone who graduated high school around then, and yes,
> >they're lucky.  However, they are also going to be dependent on
> >technology that can and will fail, and when it does they will not
have
>a
> >clue what to do.  Because, they don't know what a slate is, and they
> >don't believe their technology can fail.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:
><mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joni Colver
> >Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:57 PM
> >To: <mailto:bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [bookport] Re: Has anyone heard of this device?
> >
> >
> >As someone who graduated high school in 1974 with nothing more
> >technologically advanced than a manual typewriter and sometimes taped
> >textbooks, I sure due envy the plethora of techie devices current
> >students
> >have access to.  I would give anything to be debating whether I
needed
>a
> >
> >laptop or a Pacmate.  Slate and stylus anyone?  Tried to resist
posting
> >this
> >but just had to say how lucky you students are nowadays and I am
happy
> >for
> >you.
> >
> >Joni
> >
> >
> >
>
>Sandy Licht
>Phone: 409-898-8218
>Jeremiah 29:11 - 14A
>11For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They
>are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a
>hope. 12In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13If you look for
>me in earnest,
>you will find me when you seek me. 14I will be found by you," says
>the LORD...

Sandy Licht
Phone: 409-898-8218
Jeremiah 29:11 - 14A
11For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They
are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a 
hope. 12In those days when you pray, I will listen. 13If you look for 
me in earnest,
you will find me when you seek me. 14I will be found by you," says 
the LORD...   



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