Hi. Since these threads have generated in my opinion a bit of overwhelming
list traffic, I thought I'd combine my responses into one message.
I so far have used the book port to listen to some web braille books and
magazines. I briefly signed up for audible books but my economic
circumstances do not permit me to stick with audible as much as I enjoy it.
The same goes for book share. I have heard a couple of mp3's on the book
port and I thought they sounded wonderful. I did not compres the files
because I wanted to hear the song in its normal pitch.
I prefer human narration when the narrator is good and that is of course to
each one's preference. I did read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the book port CD but a human narrator
pronouncing the dialect is much better than a synthesizer trying to
pronounce it. Give me Burt Blackwell or Jim Walton any time. Or even my
8th grade English teacher for that matter.
I do not speed books up very often. Most of the narrators from the major
studios read fast enough for me.
Mike
