What I love about the BP is the text capability - binary search, being able to find a word through entry on the keyboard, and the ability to easily navigate within text documents. I understand why it is no longer made and cannot be, but it will always have a fond place in my heart, and as long as the two we have still work, I'm going to use it for my text documents.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois" <al419@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:28 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: New Version of Bookport?
I agree with Jeff. I am fortunate enough to have both a bookport and a Victor stream. They are both great devices. But while I certainly like the ability to read digital talking books with the stream, I'm not really happy with the voices for reading text. While Samantha seems to work the best, it's a flat human voice. Some people think me a little crazy; but I much prefer a good synthetic voice with reasonable amount of inflexion to the flat human one. So I read books from Bookshare with the bookport and use the stream for other things. It would sure be great to have the best of both devices in one package. But I guess that's wishful thinking. (grin!) In the meantime, long live the present bookport!Lois Goodine.
