[bookport] Re: New Version of Bookport?
- From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 07:44:51 -0700
Hi, All,
When will we hear about APH's new product? I sure hope that it includes all of
the features that current Book Port users have come to know and love.
Sincerely,
Mark Blier
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pamela Rader
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 6:55 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: New Version of Bookport?
Hi Pete:
That's news! Although they were manufactured by the sane company, the Book
Port and Book Courier were and are 2 separate products. APH designed the Book
Port and Springer manufactured it for us. As already stated many times on this
list, there won't be a Book Port 2 because of problems with the manufacturer.
Therefore, APH is now developing another product.
Thanks for the interesting news!
Pamela
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Peter Torpey
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:10 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] New Version of Bookport?
I see that Springer Design has recently introduced the new Book Courier
called the Book Courier Braille. Looks like all of the features that were
slated to be in the Bookport II.
Does this mean that there is still a chance to see a new bookport or does
this device already have everything in it that the Bookport was to have?
By the way, in the documentation of the Book Courier Braille (which includes
the braille note taking capability of the Bookport), I did not see any
mention of:
- Being able to read NLS books
- Being able to read DRM protected files (like those that can now be
directly downloaded from RFB&D as well as many public libraries)
I was a bit disappointed to see that they decided to go with the old
Doubletalk speech synthesizer rather than one of the newer and more natural
sounding synthesizers like people are now enjoying on the Victor Reader
Stream.
-- pete
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