[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion

  • From: "Wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:23:48 -0600

Well, my suggestion is a bit different.

I'd like for someone to develop transfer software that could run on a Pac Mate. 
 Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
Email: Wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


S -----Original Message-----
.From: "DanFlasar@xxxxxxx"<DanFlasar@xxxxxxx>
.Sent: 11/10/05 2:34:08 PM
.To: "bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"<bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
.
.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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