[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
- From: DanFlasar@xxxxxxx
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:34:08 EST
I'll have to agree with Dave here. I love my Bookport - it's versatility
keeps showing up in unexpected ways. I was working out yesterday on a
treadmill
when the I finished the book I was reading ("Vancouver" - available from
Bookshare - a Mitchener-esque history of the city of Vancouver - excellent!).
Instead of having to change a tape (assuming I'd had the foresight to include
a tape for another book or magazine, I just went to the index and chose from
among 20 other books I'd downloaded from Bookshare. I chose "Me Talk Pretty
One Day" by David Sedaris. It's like having a little library with me at all
times.
I have a Parrot Voicemate as a PDA which works fine for me. I'm fine
with the Bookport providing the functions it does. I see it as a portable
reading machine. I'd love to have better voice capabilities, and I do get a
little annoyed at hearing St. Louis pronounced as Street Louis, but I get what
it
means. If anything, I'd like to see it take on some Kurzweil
characteristics. For example, I'd like to have a dictionary on-board, which
could be
automatically cross-referenced to a book I'm reading.
For example, if I heard a word that I'm not familiar with, I'd like to
be able to key to the word, hit a key combo and get a definition for it.
Not asking for much, am I?
Dan
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