Brian, Thanks for the suggestion. Is there any information or expected timeframe as to when a new firmware will be released for the Booksense? I know that during the Unveiling back in June, they said that RFB&D support would be in the next upgrade, hopefully before the school year. They released the new update before the school year (August 6), but I haven't seen anything since then on any new firmware. I figured maybe you all on this list are better in tune than someone from the outside.
Thanks, Suleyman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian and Denise Albriton" <[email protected]> To: "Suleyman Gokyigit" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Questions from a Perspective Buyer Just as a by the way, the bookmarking feature in the booksense does not have the equivalent of: Highlight bookmarking or audiobook marking for NLS books. I have both players and the victor reaer stream is still my player of choice. Brian If you have a stream already, you might hold off until the next firmware update and see what people experience with the new firmware for the booksense. Brian On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Suleyman Gokyigit wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am a current VictorReader Stream user and am looking at purchasing a > Booksense; however, I have two questions (I will probably have more in the > future) that I cannot seem to find definite answers for. > > First, I just saw today some discussions on this mailing list regarding > the > information that is presented when pressing the 0 key while playing a > file. > Specifically, it was stated by several users that when listening to an > Audible file, pressing the 0 key does not tell you the total time of the > file. I wanted to get confirmation on this because while listening to > multiple demos and podcasts of the Booksense, the 0 key always presented > the > total time of an Audible file (I just went back and checked a couple > podcasts to confirm). So when I saw users saying that it is not reported, > this is giving me pause, as this is very important information, and I am > wondering what has changed to suddenly make the unit not report this > information. > > Second, I have read that the Booksense does not speed up audio files up as > much as the Victor (I am referring to recorded books such as Audible or > NLS, > not TTS here), but I have not seen any information regarding exactly how > much faster the Booksense can play the file. I am aware it can increase > up > to 4 levels (+1, +2, +3, and +4), but this is not very meaningful since it > does not indicate how fast each of these settings are. Does it speed up > by > 25%? 50%? 100%? Specifically, I like to listen to podcasts and other > audio at exactly double (2x) normal speed. Can the Booksense play this > fast? I know the Victor can go faster than even 2x, but I don't need it > to > be that fast, but if the Booksense cannot speed up to at least 2x, I will > not be purchasing it. > > Many thanks for anyone who is willing to address the above two questions. > > > Suleyman > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the > message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the message.
