[bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
- From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:25:50 -0500
Web Braille is wonderful! What I wish is that they had more titles.
Bookport does a wonderful job with translation, I try to find errors,
but I must admit that the translation is great! And, since many of the
books I read have been scanned, Web Braille is a refreshing change.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:05 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
I feel the same way, and while I cannot remember the last time I read an
=3D
NLS book on cassette, I am a very very big fan of the DTBs and Web =3D
Braille.
>>> ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Friday, October 22, 2004 3:55:50 PM
>>>
Now, I will never forget my Roadrunner! This will sound silly, but it
changed my life! I can't remember the last time I read an NLS book, and
that would never have been the case were it not for the Roadrunner, and
now the Bookport.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:54 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
Well, that's what I figure as well, but I guess I still have some=3D3D20
sentamental memories of my roadrunner. As I say, most of the time, I
don't=3D3D20
even bother to set the clock when I change batteries. But there is =3D
that=3D3D20
occasional time when I am lying in bed reading with no watch handy that
I=3D3D20
want to know the time. Now-a-days, I pretty much just use my bp while on
my=3D3D20
treadmill.
At 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>And you know, even if I lose all the settings as long as my place in
>files is remembered, what is the big deal? I don't use the Bookport as
>a clock, and I never try to read books with my Braille watch. Each
>device has its own gifts.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
>[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:56 PM
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
>
>
> >From my perspective, all this worrying about losing or not losing the
>time=3D3D3D20
>just doesn't get me especially worked up. I wear a watch; anyone I'm
>around=3D3D3D20
>wears a watch; I'm never far from a radio or television. In the
overall=3D3D3D20
>scheme of things where the Book Port is concerned, it's simply not
that=3D3D3D20
>important to me. If the device had never included a clock, I wonder how
>many=3D3D3D20
>would ever have missed it to begin with.
>
>----- Original Message -----=3D3D3D20
>From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:13 PM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings
>
>
>Yes, but if you are listening to an audible file or some other mp3
file,
>you won't get the warning at all until your reading just stops and you
>get
>a read error. Then the batteries go completely dead. There is no time
to
>save the time. This has happened to me twice at least.
>At 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>
> >That's why you have the low battery announcement, so you can change
it
>on =3D3D3D3D
> >time.=3D3D3D3D20
> >
> > >>> paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 05:05PM >>>
> >Yes. But what good is d e f if your battery goes dead<grin>?
> >I sure wish we could set this from the transfer tool.
> >At 10/21/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > >Pete:
> > >
> > >Pressing D+E+F does preserve the current time/date.
> > >
> > > >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 03:53PM >>>
> > >Here are two suggestions for preserving the time/date, in addition
to
> > >the other settings which can be preserved as Dale points out below:
> > >
> > >1. The BP Transfer software itself could grab the time/date
from
> > >the computer upon connection. I vaguely remember APH staff saying
>that
> > >the hardware did not support this, but I'm not sure.
> > >
> > >2. If pressing the D-E-F key combination also saved the
current
> > >time/date and the user quickly changed batteries, the time/date
would
>be
> > >very nearly correct. I wouldn't mind losing 15 seconds or so - One
> > >wouldn't even notice this since the clock is only accurate to the
> > >nearest minute, and most people usually replace the batteries
within
>a
> > >day/month/year!
> > >
> > >-- Pete
> > >
> > >From: "Dale Laser" <drlieser@xxxxxxx>
> > >Subject: [Bookport] Saving BP Settings
> > >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:46:00 -0500
> > >
> > >The d-e-f command saves the voice settings. Obviously, keeping the
=3D3D3D
>=3D3D3D3D
> >time=3D3D3D3D3D20
> > >rolling would require power, so that is not maintained.
> > >
> > >Dale
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