[bookport] Re: bookport Digest V4 #77
- From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:42:39 -0700
it's not much help, but if Book Port leaves you where you stopped reading, you
can, at least, get through a book without losing your place. Even Audible and
Overdrive allow you to back up or go forward without needing to do so chapter
by chapter. surely Book Port will have some kind of phrase segment jumping
like it does with audio files.
Of course I could be wrong.
----- Original Message -----
From: DanFlasar@xxxxxxx
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport Digest V4 #77
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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