[infoshare] Re: comparison
- From: Jamil Zuleta <chip8605@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: infoshare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:07:38 -0700
hey guys its jamil again lol i wonder if the book sense or port plus
play drm wma cuz i know the stream doesn't not. i hope they do
something about that. however the cool thing about the stream that's
was updated was the fact that when i put an mp3 book with multiple
tracks there is no brakes between the tracks. that's good.
On 3/21/10, Lynne <superlynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, All.
> We'll cover this in a bit more detail during the Saturday meeting but here
> are some things to consider when purchasing either the Victor Reader Stream
> or the Book Sense.
>
> It really comes down to what you'd like to do with the device:
> the Victor Reader Stream is an excellent book and music player that handles
> a good deal of text and audio formats. It's sound is exquisite (with the
> right headphones).
> Navigation through files is wonderfully easy as you have left and right
> arrows on either side of the play button. Hold them down and you'll move
> either forward or backwards in increments of time. You may also specify a
> 10-minute block of time to fast-forward or rewind. I find that most
> helpful.
>
> If you would like or need your MS-Word documents to become portable, then
> the BookSense is the way to go. the audio is terrific and Kate and Paul are
> quite pleasant as speech synthesizers, albeit a bit flakey when pronouncing
> some words. that last bit is purely subjective as one learns to deal with
> any speech synthesizer.
>
> My Take On it:
> I love the Stream for its amazing sound quality.
> I don't like Samantha or Tom for reading text.
> I'm also not happy with the navigation of the Music Folder. I think they
> could have made it a lot simpler. Additionally, you cannot delete an album
> from the device; you must delete track by track. that's a bit annoying to
> me.
>
> As stated, the BookSense XT has a radio, blutooth capability for cord-free
> listening and 4 gb of internal storage. This comes at the hefty price of
> $499.00 . the Standard BookSense is comparable to that of the VR Stream at
> around $350.00 or so...perhaps a bit cheaper.
>
> As I'm fortunate to have both, I'll tell you that I use them according to my
> whims. Right now I'm in a BookSense frame of mind because I'm actually
> listening to the radio and I love the fact that I can, if I remember to do
> so, record from the radio and keep the recording forever.
>
> Some other features of the BookSense that I enjoy are the ability to record
> in mp3 format, which is a standard audio format that plays on most mp3
> players and can be copied and pasted from the device to your computer
> without third-party software. At this time, the VR Stream records in a
> proprietary format and you must convert the files to wave via software known
> as the Humanware Companion.
>
> And just to throw the monkey right into the wrench...the American Printing
> House is now shipping their newest book reader called the BookPort Plus.
> Maria and I are most interested as we began our digital book journey with
> the original Book Port.
>
> Well, I sincerely hope this has been helpful.
> Enjoy what's left of this glorious weather and we hope to see you next
> Saturday.
> peace.
> Lynne
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