I agree with you, Angie. I am so used to holding down either the vollume up or down keys on remote controls and other portable devices and having a gradual increase of vollume. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Matney" <matneyar@xxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 1:49 PM Subject: [bookport] Loudest volume command > Hello all, > > I've been meaning to ask a question, and after I accidentally did this to > myself again this morning, I thought I would post > about this issue. > > My question concerns the "f for 1 beep" command to go to the loudest > volume. Do people actually use this? I ask > because I find that the only time I ever press this key is by accident, > which results in an unpleasantly loud burst of > speech. I understand why this command is there--it makes sense, > intuitively. But maybe a more useful (and less painful) > option might be to have the machine increase the volume by 5 or so > whenever "f for one beep" is pressed. This would > allow the user to quickly increase the volume, but it would save some wear > and tear on my poor ears. <grin> > > Would something like this even be a possibility? And if it is, what would > people think? > > Sorry if anyone gets great use out of this command. I just thought I would > post this suggestion here to see what others > think. > > Angie > > > > >