I really appreciate the flow of ideas that come from this list, and they
either directly provide additional awareness of functionality for the BP, or
they trigger a further development of an idea to another personal
application. I want to give credit to David Allen for his posting that lead
me to try using my Library of Congress tape player as an amplified speaker.
It does work very well for monophonic reproduction, and it has its own
rechargeable battery pack! I now use this rather than a thirty year old
pocket sized amplified speaker (9 volt battery) that I had previously used.
I haven't decided yet about purchasing stereo speakers, since the headphones
work quite well for personal listening to stereo music, and we have other
music systems for room sized listening. I found "today in the Word"
podcasts available from Moody broadcasting, and I have been playing those
two minute devotionals from BP/LOC player at breakfast time so my wife and I
can listen together. It seems I just keep finding other ways to enjoy the
versatility of the excellent development efforts of the APH BP team!
Mike Justice, www.MPNHome.net
What would be a good external speaker to use with the book port?
Any that you can find so long as you like the sound and it terminates in a 3.5 mm plug. Either the mono or stereo ImaSpeaker will work fine.
If you have a cassette player distributed by the Library of Congress or other talking book agency, you can run a patch cable between the book port and the Auxiliary input of the cassette player allowing the cassette player to provide the external speaker for the book port. This is very satisfactory.
