[bookport] Re: Odd BookPort Behavior

  • From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:51:52 -0600

Magic mushrooms, anyone?  HAHA!!  <Grin>


-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marlaina Lieberg
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:47 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Odd BookPort Behavior


My goodness, Sarah, if this were the seventies, I'd ask you what Big Bob =
had
before reading to you, LOL!
----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:01 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Odd BookPort Behavior


> Here's another really weird thing that happened to my Book Port.  As =
you =3D
> said, Marlaina, it's not a show stopper, but it's definitely weird.  I =
=3D
> was reading along yesterday and I didn't catch part of a sentence, so =
I =3D
> pressed the 1 key to go back and read the sentence again.  The BP did =
as =3D
> asked, rereading the sentence, but it started "echoing", as if I had =
=3D
> suddenly and without knowing it, switched to Ricochet Randy, only I =
=3D
> could tell it was still Big Bob reading, just with that psychedelic =
=3D
> echo.  (I thought at the time that it may have been an alien =
infestation =3D
> of my BP!  <Grin>)
> All I had to do was to wait for the two beeps after stopping the unit, =
=3D
> and all was well. But I'd love to know why it did this, how to get it =
to =3D
> do it again, and how to prevent it from happening.  I'm sure I won't =
get =3D
> any of these questions answered, I think it was a once-in-a-lifetime =
=3D
> thing.
>
> Happy Reading,
>
> Sarah
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marlaina Lieberg
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:21 AM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Odd BookPort Behavior
>
>
> Hello APH crew!
> I have an odd thing to report and while it's not a show stopper, it is =
=3D
> indeed odd.
>
> I believe this began happening with the most recent update, though I =
=3D
> can't say for sure as I've been ill in december and can't recall =
whether =3D
> this happened before or after I became ill.  Here's the deal:
>
> Each time I transfer books from my pc to my books folder on my 1 gig =
=3D
> card then open that books folder by navigating to it and pressing 0 =
=3D
> pound, my BookPort defaults itself to the second file in that folder.  =
=3D
> It never use to do this, it always found the first file.
>
> Another odd but not show stopping behavior is that I am now =
experiencing =3D
> the problem Jerry Neufeld reported some time ago, wherein the sleep =
=3D
> timer does not always trigger.  A secondary part of this one is that =
at =3D
> times when it does trigger, there's no announcement; the BookPort =
simply =3D
> stops making any sound at all.
>
> Neither of these issues slow down my use of the wonderful device, but =
=3D
> they are inconsistencies that are new.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Marlaina Lieberg
>
>
>
>
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