[bookport] Re: bookport questions
- From: "Grant Hardy" <granthardy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:33:38 -0700
How much do users out there search for text in your bookport
I assume you're referring to the "find" feature. Well, I use it very
frequently. It's especially useful for finding chapters in plain text files
(and bookmarking them if necessary), finding something in an index...etc.
It's an invaluable tool. And it searches at lightning-speed.
Any of you use the command line to transfer files to the bookport?
I don't use it personally for everyday use. Especially in Windows XP,
it would be a lot of work to have to type, for example: "c:\documents and
settings\[user]\my documents\books\book.txt" whenever you wanted to send a
book. I think this function is more intended for software developpers to
integrate the sending of files to the Book Port into their software. It's
unnecessary to use it when you can simply hit enter on files from the book
port transfer tool to send them, or even send them directly from Windows
Explorer's Send To menu.
How fast are the transfers to the bookport, any actual speed numbers?
So far the Book Port still uses USB1, but textbooks still transfer at
lightning speed. For audio you're going to have to wait a bit longer. But
if you use a separate flash card reader to send .mp3 files you can send them
in a few seconds.
The manual talks about having say ipodder download mp3 files to a flash
card
outside of the bookport and then just pulling it out of your card reader
and
putting it in the bookport for listening. Do you still have the movement
through the mp3 file by time increment i.e. 2 seconds, that you would if
the
mp3 files had been transferred through the transport tool.
Absolutely! You can still even use such things as power movement and
bookmarks.
The bookcourier forces you to always use the transfer tool, even for .txt
files. Is the bookport similar? Actually you can copy mp3 files to the
card
without the bookcourier's transfer program, but no navigation is possible
from within the mp3 file then.
Well, the Book Port is similar (although you can copy text files to the
notes folder without the transfer software). But it really isn't that bad
and there's a lot of encoding that needs to be done. And of course, you get
full navigation of mp3 files (except phrase detection) even if you don't
send them through the transfer tool.
Wow, lots of questions! I hope I answered them well.
Grant
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