[bookport] Re: Hay, is this list still active?

  • From: "Constantine" <tcwood12@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:22:08 -0600

Well, the book port is bad at recording compared with the stream.
But why do I need to recharge anything, anyway? I can pay 40 dollars get get 60 
AA batteries. That's nearly 600 hours on the book port! Yeah its newer. But 
what's with all these internal batteries now. I mean, I'm not against it or 
anything. I just think that if your trying to be like the book port you should 
have some way of replacing the batteries - like using tripple A's, like my mp3 
player - gets 12 hours on 1. Then again, my ipod gets 10 hours with rockbox on 
a built in one. So what's a guy to do. Lol.
And yeah, I looove the way the stream sorts its notes. It also compresses them 
nicely, but man do they sound good!



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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Justice 
  To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:56 PM
  Subject: [bookport] Re: Hay, is this list still active?


  One of the big advantages the Stream has is that it is newer.  Rather than 
the old fashioned way of nameing recorded memos with a date/time stamp, the 
Stream names them "Note1", "note2", "note3", etc.  This is, of course, the 
newer and therefore better way of doing things.  The old fashioned BP lets you 
check the current date and time while the new age Stream is an expression of 
the idea that being overly interested in time can harm one's inner peace and 
therefore the Stream is one of the few electronic items which has no clock.  
Also, it is old fashioned to be able to get 40, 50 or 60 hours on a set of 
easily obtained and inexpensive batteries, so the Stream will operate for only 
up to 15 hours on a charge and a replacement battery is obtained from the 
seller for at least $30.00.  of course if you are feeling nostalgic, you could 
always spend an extra $90.00 for 3 extra batteries for the Stream so that you 
could get that 60 hours you used to with the BP.  if you want to move through a 
text file by letter, word, or line, the old fashioned way with the BP was to 
use the keys set up for that purpose.  The new age way with the Stream is to 
first bring up a menu so that you can select which movement form you want.  
It's newer, therefore it's better.  The old fashioned way of searching for text 
with the BP is to type in the text and search for it.  The new age way with the 
Stream is to move through the text, sorta like flipping pages, til you find 
what you wanted.    Ummm ... everything old is new again, I guess. 

  I think I'll stop here.  hope everyone understands that while writing the 
preceeding my tongue was firmly planted in cheek.  I also hope that phrase is 
not too old fashioned for people here to understand.  <SMILE>

    David




  At 08:32 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote:

    Wo..back that up a bit.
    The stream has its bennifits. One of which is it handles audio somewhat 
better than book port. In particular, the book port rocks at reading e-texts, 
whereas, in my view, the stream falls flat on its, uh, battery cover, perhaps? 
Then again, the stream does a darn good job at recording. The book port has a 
longer battery life - but the stream has a few more features, etc. 
    I'm not bashing iether one here. But honestly, the stream is newer than the 
book port and its got bennifits. The book port holds its own.
    Its something like the braille lite vs. pac mate, in my oppinion.
    I like them both. BUt they each have there place for me. The pac mate with 
its quirty keyboard, the braille lite with its reliability.
    Same goes here. The stream I'll use for recording (I hate using the bp 
anyway, one press of a button by accident and it finishes, and the stream can 
be in my pocket). Also, the stream has a very nice way of organizing audio 
files vs. e texts. The book port, however, is way better at reading e texts, 
has a better battery life (come on someone, beat 60 hours, I dare you!)

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