[bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
- From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:19:49 -0400
Okay. Once and for all. I don't know where you've been, but that's already
been decided. Book Port cannot and will not play the NLS books. That has
already been decided. That decision came down last week and I've already
reported it to the list. You might want to read the archives for that. Book
Port was developed way before the specs for the NLS were known. Perhaps when
you stated it might, you meant Book Port 2. That is a possibility, since it is
still being developed and therefore, we will be able to build it with the
correct specs and hopefully, get permission to play the books. However, since
Book Port 2 is not here yet, nor is it even close to being ready anytime soon,
I think we should table this discussion. My intent was only to inform, not to
start a whole other debate about something APH cannot change. Those are the
facts!
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
>>> albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/01/07 12:08PM >>>
We don't know if the book port will be able to play NLS. titles but the odds
are that it will. Remember, its basic design is the same as the Stream.
They're just contracted out to different companies who have allot of
authority over the rest of the product's development. We've been getting by
with tapes for so long, a few more months shouldn't matter too much.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of lana
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:55 AM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
you're forgetting the tapes act up. Sometimes it's one's own player, and
sometimes they came that way, and getting the player replaced can be a
problem.
I'll be glad to wait a few months for a Book Port II that plays NLS, but it
isn't sounding like that will happen, and there's no telling how long it
will take the library to get its players out.
Because they're being so exclusive and high-handed about it, I'm not about
to purchase the Stream.
Hopefully the stuffyheads at NLS can get their legalized little brains
around the idea that other devices are out there.
No one likes monopolies.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <ka3lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
>I don't know of anybody who can't already read NLS books on a player they
> don't already have available. The only issue, I repeat, is purely personal
> convenience...a device like the BP is easier to carry around than is a
> four-track cassette player and people are seemingly incapable of exerting
> that much effort.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Tim Snyder
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:24 PM
> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
>
> I still say that a person who really wanted to break the code could do so
> and make books available. I certainly do not want to break their code.
> Their severe protection is just making it hard on most people who simply
> want to read NLS books on the devices they already own. If RFB&D could
> make
>
> it kpossible for us to read books on the current bookport, then NLS could
> make it far less difficult. Of course, HumanWare stands to profit greatly
> from all of this proprietary stuff. I wonder how many decoding problems
> NLS
>
> has experienced anyway?
>
>
>
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