The new book courier supports WMA's, it doesn't convirt them to mp3 or whatever the bookport does. It plays mp3 WMA OGG Audible and daisy formats. So it should be able to play NLS books. Think out it, with the advent of the stream why would any manufacturer be dumb enough to produce a product that they didn't plan to have NLS support for. Even if it doesn't say anything about NLS support it doesn't mean they're not planing on it. If they want to sell their product they are. Hopefully the new APH device will be released soon to give the stream and Book courier even more competition.
Jeff----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews on an Unspecified Input Device" <Bruce@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:46 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: New Version of Bookport?
What I don't like about the Book Port, I never did, and it's about the only thing I didn't like about it, and it's still the case with the new Book Courier, is lack of native file support. This means that any audio format other than MP3 needs to be converted to MP3 by Book Port's transfer software. This means lossy-to-lossy conversion, and this is why the Book Port and the new Book Courier (which sounds like an absolute carbon copy of the current Book Port with a few add-ons), will not and cannot support NLS books, because NLS doesn't want their files converted. bruce On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:41:59 -0600, "Jeff" <jeff.young8806@xxxxxxxxx> said:even tho their are the more natural sounding voices on the stream when you get use to them, they are really not that great. I'll take double-talk any day. Jeff----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Torpey" <ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:10 AM 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 > > >-- Bruce Toews dogriver@xxxxxxxx
