[bookport] Re: on the line of braille input
- From: "James Jolley" <james.jolley1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:19:31 +0100
Hi there,
In my case, I was only refering to the ability to enter short memos for
quick retrieval. I'm not expecting the APH folkes to start adding in spell
checkers, find and replace, though admitidly that might have some good uses,
and all sorts of things like that.
-James-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 1:55 PM
Subject: [bookport] on the line of braille input
> For the past few days people have been speaking their opinions of having
> or not expanding the Book Port's braille input capabilities. I wont' stand
> up and argue, but I'm simply saying my thoughts.
> One feature I'd really like to see is to be able to push something like
> and O cord, (for open),and then simply be able to type in your file name
> and push enter. While I do use folders to separate my txt and brf books
> from audio books which too are separated from music files, this type of
> feature would still save me dozens of arrowing up and down through the
> folder contents.
> If not an open file name, then I'd think maybe they could at least expand
> the find feature so you can type in a key word of the title, and then once
> it has found the file you want you can manually begin the reading with the
> two button as usual.
> As for having other types of braille input, or as some people are
> referring to as braille memos, it sounds like they're looking for
> something like a notetaker. I have mixed thoughts of this matter. Firstly,
> I would love to be able to edit OCR errors that my scanner made on some
> documents before I had the chance to read and send it to the Book Port. On
> the other hand, I don't think the writing of braille files is not all that
> essential that they should invest all their time in being able to create
> all new files. After all that would probably involve consideration into
> helping the Book Port understand page layout like line lengths and things,
> then there will be people wanting spell checkers and all kinds of things.
> Eventually this will affect the Book Port's physical capabilities and
> dimensions, and then you'll be lugging around something bigger like a
> Braille n Speak. I personally like the size of the Book Port the way it
> is, and if you want things like that, you're probably b
> etter to use a notetaker in the first place.
> Just my opinion...
> Tiffany
> tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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