[bookport] Re: bookport suggestion
- From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:49:17 -0600
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On Behalf Of Josh Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:46 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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