In my experience the daisy format from Bookshare transfers great to
Bookport and with 23,000 books to choose from, I can find plenty to read.
Jim
At 12:25 PM 7/12/05, you wrote:
I don't know why people are buying the big cards. I suspect most of them have never had a flash card go flaky or they'd be more careful about investing in them. I figure they'll always get cheaper, so even though one would be nice, no reason to hurry.
I scan many of my books, and get others off of web braille. Last I heard you had to use either braille or daisy for bookshare, and they didn't seem to have much I wanted anyway. Braille wouldn't be bad, but daisy text is a solution looking for a non-existent problem and inconvenient to boot.
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:59:12 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>Hi everyone:
>Sound pretty much like most people use their Book Port to do text-to-speech. I'm trying the text-to-speech more often now. I like the fact that you can easily move files quickly to the Book Port. If most people who've responded use text-to-speech, wire so many people purchasing large 2GB and 4GB CompactFlash cards?
>Audible and other audio books don't seem to be used that much.
>Here's one more question.
>Where do most people get their books for reading? Bookshare?
>thanks -- Jim Nuttall
>
>Richard Ring <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have read audible books with my Bookport, however the majority of the time I use text-to-speech.
>I can speed that up, and for that reason, I tend to prefer synthesized speech.
>Weird, eh?
>I listen at least a couple of hours a day, much more on weekends.
>I have listened to music, and probably will again, but it is not my primary reason for having a Bookport.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Nuttall
>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:50 AM
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [bookport] How do you use you Book Port?
>
>
>So far most of the time I use my Book Port for reading audio MP3 books. I was wondering if people could give me feedback on the following questions.
>
>What percent of the time do you listen to audio books?
>
>What percent of the time do you use text-to-speech to listen to books or materials?
>
>But percent of the time do you listen to music MP3's?
>
>How often do you use your Book Port?
>
>Thanks for the feedback -- Jim -- Michigan
