[bookport] Re: future of bookport
- From: "Borst, Randall" <reborst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:05:29 -0500
What amazes me about all this is that while the sighted world struggles
over whether BlueRay or HD DVD will control the 1080P consumer movie
market, the blind struggle with not just two but a whole variety of
formats for electronic books and all the different machines required to
play them. The notion that there should be so much competition over who
is going to write the files and make the products to read electronically
to a few million blind people around the world would no doubt surprise
even the most boisterous of advocates for chaos and anarchy. Meanwhile,
the very least expensive of these devices cost more than the least
expensive of DVD players, regardless of type, while the most expensive
of these devices cost an amount that would buy a DVD player fit for a
king.
I think it's time for leaders in the field to get together and come up
with one format that everybody can use, regardless of which machine the
consumer chooses. We know that, whatever we buy, we are going to have
to pay entirely too much money because our market is so small.
Regardless, the various formats aren't about protecting copyrights, they
are about lunacy. And don't even get me started with the rinky-tink
software readers out there for reading DAISY files.
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From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:03 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: future of bookport
The reason that I purchased Book Port instead of another device such as
Book Courier, is because I wanted to be able to read RFB&D books as well
as electronic ones. I rarely read NLS books because it is easier for me
to download Bookshare books and read them either via Kurzweil or with
Book Port. As I understand it, Book Port is the only device that is able
to read RFB&D books as well as electronic ones, and therefore, I hope
that APH will manufacture Book Port II in the near future like they
promised. I would hate to see this wonderful device no longer in
existence.
Barbara
Yerba Bruja <yerbabruja@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perhaps no one missed it. I think people are trying to figure
out what
other alternatives they can have with bookport or whatever,
because there's
a difference between shelling out $395 for a bookport and $1,395
for a
braille plus, in spite of how convenient, versatile and
impressive the
latter is. Don't get me wrong. I love both. But I can see why
people
would be looking for options involving cost below those of the
braille plus
or icon.
What I would be interested to know is if APH is at any point
interested in
developing pc based software capable of reading those nls books.
Might be a
less costly alternative, given that there wouldn't be hardware
involved.
Not as portable as the bookport or braille plus but...
Marta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis Delzer"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: future of bookport
> you all missed it! Didn't Pam say that another Braille device
will soon
> support the NLS format?
>
> Curtis Delzer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Fiorello"
> To: "bookport"
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:00 AM
> Subject: [bookport] future of bookport
>
>
> Hi;
> While I'm not certain if we can really know about any future
releases or
> not, bookport customers are "jumping ship" and going to
players that will
> work with nls. As other players are approved more folks may
choose to
> seriously look at them. Once the bulk of the market has gone
elsewhere it
> might be to little to late to come out with a new and improved
bookport.
> At
> the moment, however, I enjoying the good old outdated
bookport.
> Richard
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