[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
- From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:43:04 -0600
I am sure that the BookPort processor must be considerably faster than the BNS,
and I would guess that today's memory is considerably faster than the memory in
the BNS was. Plus, if the software were written to do so, I would think that
with a fair size memory card the BookPort could use memory card memory for part
of its processing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
: It wouldn't take the processor a long time to use it because the braille n
: speak's spell checker is and was only 2 or 300k in size.
:
: Josh
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Lou Kolb" <loukolb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
: To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:07 PM
: Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
:
:
: > Because with a Book Port you can carry hundreds of books in your shirt
: > pocket which can not be done with the pac mate. They're both great
: > devices
: > and I'm not suggesting that the BP shouldn't be developed but it is first
: > and foremost a reading machine. Whatever else it is made to do I'm sure
: > APH
: > won't diminish those functions. As for the spell checker, they take an
: > enormous amount of memory which is why I never used one on the BNS. I'm
: > not enough of a hardware guy to know for sure but I suspect that even if
: > you had one that could be stored on the flash card, it would take the BP
: > processor an inordinately long time to use it. That's why it's a great
: > idea
: > to put the bible on in individual files for each book. Searching one file
: > is prohibitively long. Lou
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
: > To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:24 PM
: > Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
: >
: >
: >> but if you have a pacmate or pda then why have a bookport?
: >> Well a bookport is smaller, guess it's all personal preference.
: >>
: >>
: >> Josh
: >>
: >> ----- Original Message -----
: >> From: "Wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: >> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: >> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:23 PM
: >> Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
: >>
: >>
: >> > 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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