Dale, I don't have the XT model, but can give you my impressions of the DAISY / Document / Media players.
The DAISY player seems to work flawlessly with NLS books, at least in my experience. I have not tried a non NLS book. Sometimes, the user interface feels a bit clunky, however. For example, when you finish reading a book, you have to "close" it before you can delete it from the SD card. When the book is open, the delete key serves a different function. The only complaint I have with the document reader is that if you are reading text with hard line breaks in it, the synth pauses briefly at each HRT, making the output a bit choppy. This does not happen in Word documents and the like which don't have hard returns at the end of each line. As far as the media player goes, it works well, but the user interface is, again, a bit clunky. As with the DAISY player, you have to select a song from the list and open it, which starts it playing. When it finishes, you have to close it to return to the list. It would be nice if this interface worked more like a ZinStone or MUVO T100. E.G., when one song finishes, the next one in the list automatically starts unless you intervene. Maybe you can make it do this, but I don't know how. I don't mean to sound negative. Over-all I love the player. Before I bought it, I went on line and read the entire owner's manuals for both the Victor Reader Stream and Book Sense and decided on the Book sense. I'm not in any way disappointed in that decision. I do think, however, that the Victor's firmware is a little more advanced and has added some very nice features in the past few months, namely being able to transfer a book from an NLS cartridge or memory stick to the SD card. Don't know if it can transfer multible books, yet, but if not, I'm sure it's in the works. I have written GW Micro an Email regarding some of these issues and they have been very responsive. Hopefully a firmware upgrade is forthcoming with a few of these enhancements and bug fixes. Gotta keep up with the Jones's (or Humanware's) you know. Darrin Darrin Porter Senior Technical Engineer United Ocean Services, L.L.C. 601 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 230 Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 209-4247 (office) (813) 744-0011 (cellular phone) (813) 242-4849 (fax) darrin.por...@united-mar.comm<mailto:darrin.por...@united-mar.comm> ________________________________ From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:37 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Anyone use the BookSense XT? Good afternoon, I am in the market for a solid state reader & MP3 book player. The BookSense XT appears interesting to me. I am interested to hear from people using one, how you like it. Is the FM radio any good? I am in a fringe reception area, any sense of the sensitivity of the receiver? Thanks for any opinions. Dale Leavens. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________ Attention: This email and any accompanying attachments constitute confidential and/or legally privileged information. If you have received this email communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments from your system. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
