According to the manual for the Book Port, mp3 at 128 bit rate will play fine and in stereo.
There is no A.C. plug adapter. Its recommended that you buy and use rechargeable batteries and recharge on a separate battery charger. The unit comes with a 64 mb flash card and you can buy additional flash cards from your local computer store. I understand that both the Book Port and the Book courier will accept storage/playback of Audible books from audible.com Hope this information helps you a little more to get a clear idea of the Book Port. Aloha, Milton M. Ota Associate Dealer, Hawaii Island Computer Access Now, I.C.A.N. 1318 Kanewai Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96816-1718 Phone: (808)734-0612 Cell: (808)295-2528 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.hgea.org/~mota -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:41 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: the Book Port Thanks, Milton, for the information in your message quoted below. If only there was a similar product which used Eloquence text to speech rather than Doubletalk I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. I read the article comparing the BookPort and BookCourier, but I felt it did an inadequate job of comparison. It really just listed the features of each product without much comparison. Nowhere did I find much information about the mp3 capabilities of these products. What bit rates do they support? More importantly, what bit rates do they *not* support? Can bookmarks be placed within mp3 files? I think my primary use for the unit would be to listen to audio and perhaps audible.com books, so I'd be most interested in the detailed differences between the two units in this regard. Are there other products which I should consider for listening to audio/audible.com books? Also, nowhere was anything mentioned about AC adaptors. Can either of these units be run off of AC? If not, it seems one would go through a lot of batteries. I did notice that in addition to the BookCourier being $20 less expensive, it also includes twice the memory. Jeff, the Ultra guy http://www.UltraHost.US http://www.UltraRadio.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milton M. Ota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:59 PM Allow me to answer two postings in one-- I believe that the firmware in the BookPort over the Book Courier will support Daisy format 3.0 where the Book Courier currently was only supporting Daisy format 2.2. Whether that makes any difference at this time is not that important as there are not many books available in Daisy 3.0. The BookPort is a product of the American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. information about the BookPort can be found at their website at: http://www.aph.org/ You can find a website on the Book courier at: http://www.bookcourier.com/ And for all interested parties, go to the web of the American Foundation for the Blind's Accessworld for July 2004 and read a comparison report of the two devices we are talking about here. http://www.afb.org/accessworld/ Aloha, Milton M. Ota _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
