[bookport] Re: I wasn't impressed.
- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:12:21 -0600
For me, I think I would have rather it took regular batteries. If it would
have needed to be a bit bigger for that, that's fine with me. Smaller is not
always better.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: I wasn't impressed.
> The battery thing seems to be the biggest hang-up for people. What
> interests me is that a lot of the people who are very concerned about
> the batteries are the same people who wanted the unit to be as small as
> it possibly could be. Unfortunately, to those people, you can't have it
> both ways. If you make the unit too small to hold standard batteries,
> one of the side effects of this reduction in size is, oddly, that it
> can't hold standard batteries.
>
> Bruce
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:06:54 -0700, "Lois Goodine" <al419@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> said:
> > I agree with Bruce. In some ways I like the present BP better than
> > anything.
> > But I can understand the thinking for some of the changes coming and BP2
> > will be
> > great! Personally I really like using the double A batteries. When I
> > use them
> > only for reading text, I can get 90 hours out of them! And I really
> > don't mind
> > Double talk. I thought I would at first. But like Larry said, you get
> > too
> > interested in what you're reading to care about it. And Double talk
does
> > have
> > some not too bad inflection.
> > Lois Goodine.
> >
> >
>
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