[icon-discuss] Re: Improving NLS on Icon and Braille Plus
- From: Scott Ford <scotte.ford@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:28:09 -0400
Linda,
I would really recommend taking the plunge into NLS digital books,
especially if you have a Victor Stream or a Icon, it is free.
Furthermore I honestly believe that you will be pleasantly surprised
ad how amazingly well they do work. The-First the audio from the
books is a vast improvement over the NLS tapes. Second the navigation
of the digital books is nothing less than amazing. Most of us listen
to the books at normal or 120% of normal, at this speed the victor
stream is flawless, in my opinion and the Icon sound fine for the most
part. I do have to admit that the spaces between files are a little
pregnant and the end point are not the greatest. This is certainly
not a reason to wait for changes, in my opinion. A few more upsides
to the digital service are. You can paroos the library at your
leisure and download the book without the wait for tapes to arrive.
You do not have to deal with tapes. The sound quality is vastly
improved over the tapes, even taking in consideration of the
problems. The form factor for both the books and devices are
awesome. The upgrades for the devices has been coming at respectibale
times, thus bringing improvements that are needed and welcome. Have a
great day.
Scott
On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Linda Gehres wrote:
Irwin, I totally agree with you, and that's why I haven't taken the
plunge yet into getting with the
NLS pilot program till this issue is resolved. Yes, I've seen the
new and improved
Victor Streams, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to purchase a
second machine in
order to hear computerized NLS books. I know there's been a lot of
comment on the discussion list about
this issue, and I, too, hope it can be resolved. I do, however,
wonder if part of the problem is with the
NLS formatting. Is that formatting just in the development stage,
and is NLS assuming that everyone
interested in reading digital books is going with the Humanware
product? That doesn't sound fair
to me either, and I gather one cannot just download digital NLS
books on computer. Hopefully it's
a situation where I'm just confused and don't have all of the
information. But, please, a comment from someone in the
know at Levelstar and or APH would be greatly appreciated.
Linda Gehres
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