Chuck could you p,ease re-type your signature? Your spelling g of the words are all I correct and to me it makes you look bad. Thanks,
Aaron Linson Once an Eagle Always an Eagle On May 25, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Chuck Dean <chuckd...@icloud.com> wrote: > Well, all things considered, the worst sounding talking book is better than > no talking book. > > Chuck (mobile) > Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. > > On May 25, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > >> Chuck, the sad thing is, I can remember when Talking books came on a 12 inch >> record and they played at 33 and a third RPMs and was ticked off when they >> went to 10 inch records at 16 RPMs and then all that new-fangled cassettes >> thing on 2 tracks. That wasn't good enough though for them, They then had >> to go from 2 track to 4 tracks and then they went a step farther and cut >> playback speed in half. They said quality wouldn't suffer but they were >> wrong. It did. The best thing to happen to talking books was they went >> digital. Sound quality went up greatly if you were listening to a new >> recording but then trouble struck again with budget cuts. Far fewer new >> books were being recorded and they started emptying out the tape libraries >> and digitizing those along with some restorazations of older books on >> record. Still, the best sounding recordings come from new books being >> recording for the first time. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Chuck Dean >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:19 AM >> Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App >> >> Hi Joe, >> While I am looking forward to the IOS app, there is something about using >> the talking book machine supplied by NLS that is comforting. I like the >> physical buttons and the sturdy feel of the machine. Perhaps it is just a >> throwback to when I first started using talking books on cassette... Which >> was a big deal back then. >> >> Chuck (mobile) >> Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. >> >> On May 25, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> >> wrote: >> >>> I have to agree with you here. I have an iPhone 4 and even a Nano 5 and >>> yet I still take my Victor Reader Stream with me. The 1 thing I do like >>> about the new Stream is it's ability to be recharged via a USB connector >>> this saving the need for yet one more recharger in the bag. Still, it >>> would be nice to have a talking book handy for those times when your >>> sitting around with your thumb up your nose waiting for something or some >>> one! <grin> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Joe >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 6:20 PM >>> Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App >>> >>> I'm an iPhone user, and I still use a Victor Stream to listen to NLS books. >>> I prefer the convenience of tactile buttons to navigate, quickly stop/start, >>> and change formats. It's going to take me a long time to get used to a touch >>> screen to do things you can easily accomplish with a keypad.--Joe >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >>> Of Sieghard Weitzel >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App >>> >>> Hi Christopher and John, >>> >>> Many on this list who take full advantage of all the wonderful features and >>> capabilities of the iPhone forget that there are still a lot of people out >>> there who are blind or visually impaired and who either don't want or don't >>> need a smartphone which comes with half a mortgage in the form of an >>> expensive monthly plan. >>> >>> For me the Stream or Booksense both of which I owned at one point also don't >>> have any attraction anymore and instead of spending $300 or $350 or whatever >>> these devices cost nowadays on one of these I'd much rather buy an iPod >>> Touch or iPad Mini as a companion device for my iPhone. But, as I said, a >>> lot of blind people are perfectly happy with a Stream or Booksense and I >>> would imagine it will be quite a while yet before such specialty devices >>> become obsolete. Oh, maybe a Stream or Booksense doesn't have much to do >>> with an iPhone, but I think it's OK to discuss them in the context of >>> services like NLS and I guess if Raul or Cara don't agree they will let us >>> know. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sieghard >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >>> Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "VIPhone" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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