[bookport] Re: bookport Digest V4 #77
- From: DanFlasar@xxxxxxx
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:21:21 EDT
FYI:
We Bookport folks are very spoiled, having the ability to navigate by
page, sentence and phrase and so on. The new NLS digital talking books will be
very uneven in navigation. Books of poetry, for example, are excellent -
you can go from poem to poem. Magazines seem to do pretty well too, giving us
the ability to navigate by story and within story (sometimes) headers or
subheadings.
For everything else, however, navigation is rudimentary. At best, for a
novel or nonfiction work, you can get chapter navigation, but no page
markups will be available. I understand that this decision is final, and
that it
is a lot of work to markup the considerable number of already recorded books,
but perhaps a compromise? New books, say nonfiction, Pulitzer, Nobel,
Newberry prize winners, NY Times and Washington Post bestsellers could be
paginated? Chapter level is fine for genre fiction but frankly, the new NLS
books
will be a step down for BookPort/Bookshare users. The test is not over yet
and
there of course are bugs to be worked out in the NLS upcoming release.
I understand that the Canadian NLS has a more comprehensive digital
talking books program. Can anyone tell me abou tit and can they be ported to
the
BookPort - 1 or 2?
Thanks,
Dan
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