Then please explain to me why the same book on my victor reader stream
didn't do the same thing? And I don't have it happen withe the current
firmware.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Sandy Licht" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
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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