To be fair, we don't even know what the display will look like. It
might be as nice as the Kindle's. At 07:01
AM 3/19/2010 -0500, you wrote:
So what are they doing? Making it into a mini kindle with access for the
blind?
BTW -- I bought a kindle for my mother for Christmas and the smaller version
runs over $250.
The larger version for reading periodicals and newspapers is twice that. So
the booksense isn't too awfully overpriced IMO -- it has a smaller market
than the kindle and it is 100% accessible (for blind persons with hearing).
As for being marketable to sighted users, if I were sighted, I would go for
something like the kindle over the booksense, even with a display, as a lot
of technology goes into creating the kindle display so it is almost like
looking at a printed page rather than a tv-type image of one. Also, the
kindle's voicing feature is helpful not just for blind, but dyslexics as
well. My sister-in-law is severely dyslexic and loves her kindle. So I doubt
she would consider a booksense, which is designed for use by blind, when she
can have a better display and voicing that she can turn off and still read.
Anyway, I obviously like my booksense, but if I were sighted I probably
would not.
Feel free to disagree.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>
To: "'Christopher Chaltain'" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:27 PM
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] new booksense
Might this then be something which could be marked to the sighted customer
as well? If that is the case, SMART THINKING ON SOMEONE'S PART! This is what
our technologists should have been trying to do for years to help off-set
some of the costs we experience, though I don't have a problem with the Book
Sense cost really. I think this could be a good move depending on the
rationale for it.
Dianne
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Chaltain [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] new booksense
I saw the following in the latest HIMS newsletter:
BookSense DS
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The BookSense DS is portable DAISY player with OLED screen.
You can see current reading file or menu through the screen.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to or not, and of course, I'm
neither Raul or a GW staffer.
--
Christopher
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:49 PM
To: gw-booksense
Subject: [GW-Booksense] new booksense
Hello. On blind bargains I saw that HIMS might be coming out with a new
BookSense. Can Raul or another GW staff member comment on that or tell us
how this new device will effect current BookSense users?
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Jeremiah 29:11-14 (Amplified Bible)
11For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the
Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to
give you hope in your final outcome.
12Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me,
and I will hear and heed you.
13Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital
necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.(A)
14I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you
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