Yes this is true -- probably much of the logic in the kindle player is to control the selection and downloading of books; reading is a matter of putting it up on the screen. I even heard that the kindle system keeps track of what books you have paid for and gives you up to 5 copies (for 5 kindles). If you install a 6th, it will zap or delete one of the other ones. That is from another list and just hearsay, but I know it tries to enforce copyright. That kind of thing would need to go in the booksense too, unless they tweaked the kindle book in some way that would prevent it from running on a regular kindle player, so you wouldn't share copies. That being the case, why not just convert the book to daisy and upload it to bookshare.org? An interesting debate. --le
----- Original Message ----- From: "Butch Bussen" <[email protected]> To: "qubit" <[email protected]> Cc: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]>; "'Brenda'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] booksense DS Before everyone wanders to far down the wrong path, I doubt seriously if the booksense will do kendle books. My wife has a kendle and loves it. Some books can be read via text to speech and some cannot, even though the menus don't speak at all. The way she gets books is via connection to a cell tower, the kendle is wireless, and she has an account set up with amazon. Ordering books, wish lists and all that is done on the kendle. Each has its own unique serial number so when she connects, it knows who it is and what account and so forth. Sure it would be possible, but they'd have to set up a page to download books, you'd have to have a special key like we do for nls and so forth. I really think they'd much rather sell kendles than adapt someone elses hardware. 73 Butch Bussen wa0vjr open Node 3148 Las Vegas On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, qubit wrote: > yes, and kindle is currently working on "accessifying" the kindle by > making > the menus talk. Having the booksense firmware read kindle books would > siphon off some of their blind customers. I wonder if the kindle people > have thought of sharing their file format info with companies like GWMicro > who produce book readers. That would get them off the hook as far as > making > their hardware accessible, while still making money on kindle book sales. > --le > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <[email protected]> > To: "'Brenda'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:20 PM > Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] booksense DS > > > That is what I have been thinking and wondering about this. That could > really help a lot of things, particularly if they could beat the cost of > the > Kindall. > > Dianne > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brenda [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] booksense DS > > Is the Booksense DS maybe going to compete with the Kindle? Is it > possible > to get Kindle books on the Booksense? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christopher Chaltain" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:44 PM > Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] booksense DS > > >> As far as who would purchase the Booksense DS, or how GW Micro is >> marketing >> it, it says the following from the GW Micro web site: >> >> The OLED display is fantastic for the classroom or students who have >> learning difficulties. Teachers can use the display to see what the >> students >> are doing, >> or to see what the BookSense is saying. Students with learning >> difficulties >> will be able to follow along on the screen when reading an accessible >> DAISY >> textbook or a document to help reinforce the material. Students will be >> able >> to see and hear the textbooks, and they can even adjust the rate of how >> fast >> they read to make reading fun and easy. >> >> The BookSense DS is the choice for educators, students, people with >> neuropathy, and any blind or visually impaired person who wants to easily >> access music, >> books, documents, and more. Weighing in at only 0.14 pounds, the >> BookSense >> DS is easy to carry and easy to handle. >> >> I would also be shocked if the introduction of the Booksense DS has any >> effect on the support of the Booksense at all. GW Micro would have to >> answer >> the question on possible upgrades to the Booksense DS. >> >> >> -- >> Christopher >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sandy Licht [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:19 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] booksense DS >> >> Maybe I'm missing something? But why would someone who is blind want it? >> From the sound of it, you would almost have to have perfect vision to >> read >> the display. Do you have a link for the audio? I must admit to being >> curious. >> At 07:56 AM 3/28/2010 -0700, you wrote: >>> Interesting, I wonder how they did that? The display must be very >>> small! >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]> >>> To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:10 AM >>> Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] booksense ds >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Actually, there was a short audio description given from the show last >>>> week in San Diego telling us that the new unit is a bit smaller than >>>> the current models, even with a display! >>>> >>>> Rod >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:53 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] booksense ds >>>> >>>> >>>>> I would imagined there will be no effect. It will also probably be >>>>> larger in size because of the display. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis" <[email protected]> >>>>> To: "gw-booksense" <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:56 AM >>>>> Subject: [GW-Booksense] booksense ds >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello. How does the new introduction of the BookSense DS effect >>>>>> current BookSense users? Will it still be supported? Is there a way >>>>>> to trade in a current BookSense for a BookSense DS? Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> Louis >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >> only. 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