Not so, the same book played in the VS does not play "end of side . .
." In fact when this happens, often syllables of the next part are
cut off, maybe as much as a word or two.
Curtis Delzer.
HS.
At Wednesday 11/18/2009 01:01 PM, Rod Gowen wrote:
We certainly cannot blame the fact that we hear "End of Side" once
in a while on the Book Sense or its firmware.
That information is a part of the original recordings and it is
entirely up to those who do the daisy markup to make sure that the
daisy player is told to jump over such information by the use of a
special mark in the file. If the person doing the markup misses it
and then the quality control department also misses it, then we are
going to be hearing the unwanted info.
In other words, a book producer problem, not a Book Sense problem.
Rod
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandy Licht" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
Can we really blame the end of side messages on the BookSense? If
they have been recorded, they are just... there to be played like
any other part of the book. We all have our pet peeves, I suppose.
At 08:06 AM 11/18/2009 -0800, you wrote:
You had better luck than I did! I kept losing my place, and
getting end of side messages while listening to the books.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
Hi Russ,
I, as stated, am still using v1.0 and have listened to over 50
NLS books on it so far and can honestly say that I have never
lost my bookmark or my place while reading, no lockups and no dropouts.
One of these was the 800 megabyte, 75 hour Big Book Of Pulps and
others were very short.
I guess my biggest complaint, if I have one other than the
pronounciation dictionary, is in regard to the low volume of the
NLS books as compared to the volume of the book itself.
I do have one question for GW and HIMS though.
Why must we hear the TTS voice tell us the title of the book when
it is fully loaded? After all, didn't we just hear the title
before we pressed play?
It seems totally unnecessary.
In any case, I have had no problems with NLS books on this particular unit.
Rod
----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
The 1.0 was unusable when it comes to listening to nls books. I
don't use playlists.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
To: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>; "Rich Ring"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
I bought my Book Sense standard the first day they were for
sale and have been using it every day since, with very few problems!
I have not updated the original firmware, or, I should say that
I have updated it (twice) and gone back to V1.0 each time.
I went back because I want to use playlists and they did break
that in the beta version.
As for reading NLS books, I have never lost a bookmark or had a
book refuse to play nor have I ever lost my place in one of them.
I do not use audible, so cannot comment on that.
I read my newspaper from NFB Newsline each morning and these
have given me no problem either.
I play a lot of books that I have ripped from CDs and converted
to single files and have had no trouble with these to date.
The one area that I would have to say that I am disappointed in
is with the TTS pronounciation dictionary.
Other than that, I will continue to enjoy my little unit and be
waiting patiently for any fixes and new and exciting additions
to the firmware that may be in the works and on the way.
I will say, that, if I were in Rich's position, and having as
many problems as he talks about having, I would be on the phone
getting an RMA and a new unit!
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Rich Ring" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
I very seldom have a problem keeping my place reading an NLS
book. I hit the pause button and then I turn it off. I've
never used bookmarks, so I can't comment on them. I don't use
audible books, either.
The few times the BS didn't keep my place were my fault, not
the BookSense.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Ring" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:24 AM
Subject: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
Greetings all:
I received my Booksense at the NFB convention in early
July. Until last Wednesday, November 11, I have used it
exclusively for all of my reading needs. I love its form
factor. I love its navigation structure. I love the fact
that it has a clock. I love its text to speech voices.
However, I have simply been too frustrated by other issues to
continue using the device. I shall name them here.
1. The device will not keep its place in any NLS book. If I
load an NLS book, navigate to a chapter heading, read for a
few minutes and then subsequently close that book, when I open
the book again, I am always taken back to the beginning of the
book, and this is frustrating. Certainly, I can find my place,
but this behavior should not be.
2. Suppose I am reading an NLS book, and I turn the device
off. Now, I turn it back on, and press "play" to start
listening to the book. What often happens is you get this
incredible machine gun noise. You can correct the problem by
changing the navigation level, but again, this should not be.
3. My Booksense will never save bookmarks.
4. My Booksense is not honoring headings in Audible books.
The reason I finally gave up on the unit is that I downloaded
"Under the Dome" from Audible last week, and when the
Booksense kept taking me back to the beginning of a part of
the book, I'd simply had enough.
I truly love this device, but until the firmware update is
released, I will use the Stream, because it always holds my
place, and it honors Audible headings. There is only so much
frustration I can deal with, but I sincerely hope that these
problems are addressed in the new firmware, and when that
firmware is released, I'll update my machine as soon as I can.
The trouble is, the Booksense used to keep its place in NLS
books, why it no longer does is a mystery to me. I even
reinstalled the firmware that came out in August, just to make
sure. I have done more than one reset, even the reset where
you depress the reset button and hold down the number 4 key.
At this point in time, unless someone has a great need to use
the device to read computer generated text, I cannot recommend
this unit at all. I hope that with the next firmware update
that I will be forced to change my mind.
Thank you all.
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