[bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
- From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:36:22 -0500
I'm not sure why people are so irritated about having to wait to play their
specially formatted books from NLS. It's been this way since the beginning.
When disks were recorded at 16 RPM. standard turntables wouldn't play them
and people had to wait for NLS. to distribute special record players called
talking book machines. The same was trough when they began using cassettes.
Not only were they four track players when everyone else could only play one
or if the could play more it was two at once as in stereo so again we had to
wait for the special units. Now they've introduced digital books, a drastic
improvement over what went before and we have to wait for the special units.
I believe people have become spoiled by having so many choices of players
over the years. It's not as if our present players won't work until the new
ones arrive, smile.
-----Original Message-----
From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of lana
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:07 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
Actually, we don't know that it will. If I was reasonably sure it would, I
wouldn't have made such a fus, but to be required to wait years or buy a
particular machine just because NLS has a special arrangement with the
company is a little more than irritating.
----- Original Message -----
From: "KEITH CREASY" <KCREASY@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 10:37 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: nls and current book port2
> One word of clarification.
>
> The Bookport II will be able to play NLS books when it comes out. The
> origional Bookport, at least as far as we know, will not ever be able
> to play them.
>
> Keith
>
>
>>>> lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx 10/01/07 11:54AM >>>
> 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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