[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
- From: Josh and LuAnn <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:25:17 -0500
yeah but then with mobilespeak pocket don't you have to carry around a qwerty
keyboard?
And the last time I played around with a pacmate with a braille keyboard it was
slow in responding to key presses and things like that.
Josh
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: David Tanner <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:41:37 -0600
>Subject: [bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
>Can we be a bit more general about your request and say have a transfer
>software that will work on Mobile Windows PC 2003 or later, including Mobile
>2005. MobileSpeak Pocket has just released a version of their software that
>will run on the new IPAQ's that are running the new Mobile 2005 operating
>system, which is newer than the operating system on the PACMate.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <wstephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:23 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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