In my case, I couldn't see paying the extra money for the fm radio,
bluetooth and internal memory. The bluetooth just takes extra battery life.
Did you find setting the equalizer to rock gives you the best sound for all
around listening? I did.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: book sense requesting opinions
I have been using the BookSense XT for several months. Here is why I
have chosen it over some of the other players.
I use the BookSense for my travel alarm. I like having this alarm
feature along with the FM Radio.
As for the speed, this is not an issue for me. The only time I crank
things up is when I am reading something technical or something related
to a course I might be taking. For that I use a PC. For me the BookSense
is used for leisure reading so I am quite comfortable with human
narration at normal speaking rates. Sometimes if a narrator is a little
to relaxed, I will move the rate up by one to get it closer to a normal
rate of speech.
I use the text to speech features for documents when going to meetings.
I like being able to skim through MS Word, text, or HTML files. The
drawback here for me is that the BookSense needs a better way to search
for text.
Another deciding factored for me is the quality of music recordings. The
BookSense does a slightly better job in the playback of music than the
others I tried first when making my decision.
One fix that I feel is required is when playing DAISY books that have
been generated by a utility like the DAISY Book Generator, the BookSense
from time to time will not play the entire audio file. The last five to
fifteen seconds is cut off every now and then. I know this is an issue
specific to the BookSense, because playing the same folder on other
players does not yield the same results.
Traditionally updates from GW Micro are not as frequent as some of the
other companies. If there is a major bug, I find that GW Micro does a
good job in getting out a fix. Their updates are often more stable than
other companies.
Vic
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph C. Lininger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 5:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: book sense requesting opinions
Howdy folks,
I've been considering purchasing a digital book reader. I am wary of
Humanware products for a couple of reasons, which I don't feel it
necessary to go into here. I was thinking of purchasing a book sense,
since I own several GW Micro products and have been happy with just
about all of them. I have Window-Eyes, a Voice sense, and a Sync
Braille. The Voice Sense I don't really use because it doesn't meet all
of my portable computing needs, but I've played with it anyway and its a
nice device in spite of that.
I need something that is portable and can read rfb&d (this is an
absolute requirement, not a maybe). I see from the web site that the
book sense products now do support RFB&D. Do all models support that?
And can anyone tell me there experiences using this product? I need to
make my dicision soon, so any feedback any of you can give on the book
sense line of products would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
They say god has always been. Linux and I will now disprove that:
$ ar m God
ar: creating God
There you have it. God was created by the ar program. Good news is, God
really does exist!
Joseph C. Lininger, <[email protected]>
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