bookport usability?

[Ameer Armaly]

I believe it is the other way around- I sent a wave file to it and it in 
fact converted it to mp3.  I use the bookport as my portable mp3 player for 
all things audio, and it works just great.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: bookport usability?


> "Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6" <paulmigs at migliorelli.org> 
> writes:
>
>> Howdy Kirk.  Have you heard of any way to use bookport yet for the
>> transfer software needed?  Didn't know if it was something we could use
>> yet since I gather the transferware is still win only, and I gather you
>> need the ware and cannot simply put files on it?
>
> Hi Paul:  I'll answer what I know of your questions here rather than
> in the private mail you sent me.  As I said in a previous message here
> you can certainly use e-texts on the bookport providing you place them
> in the notes directory.  I have read two complete books this way and
> it worked just great.  It kept track of where I left off reading when
> I stopped or moved to diferent files and it kept bookmarks I set.  It
> doesn't have quite as good of navigation control as if you had run it
> through the transfer program but I didn't find that detracted at all
> from my reading pleasure.  If one wanted it would be easy enough to
> process a file before loading it onto the unit by making each line be
> sentence based and removing all of the blank lines and such.
>
> In your private mail you said that you believe the transfer program
> convert the mp3 to .wav before downloading them.  I don't know for
> sure about that.  My reading of the bookport manual didn't seem to
> indicate that.  It appears to me that it could play native mp3 with no
> prior processing.  If someone has a bookport that they have loaded
> mp3s onto it would be an easy enough thing to check, just go to it
> from my computer after connecting it and look through the
> directories.  In a way I hope it doesn't convert them before loading
> them because if it does that means you won't be able to load a lot of
> wave files on to the device before filling it.  That of course depends
> on how large of compact flash you have but still a 512mb cf could not
> hold even one standard compact disk worth of audio.
>
>  Kirk
>
>
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