[blindkid] Bookport

[Mike Freeman]

Actually, although the Victor Reader Stream is a *wonderful* device (I 
carry mine everywhere), if your daughter expects to read a ton of texts 
(as opposed to, say, NLS talking books or RFB&D books), she *may* find 
the Book Port more useable in that its text-to-speech engine (a 
dedicated DoubleTalk speech synthesizer) can read far more quickly while 
staying intelligible than can either Samantha or Tom (the two VR Stream 
American text-to-speech voices). So while in a number of ways, the Book 
Port may seem superfluous, a number of blind folks still prefer it for 
reading massive amounts of ASCII text. For my part, I can go either way 
and while I still own and and glad to own a Book Port, I tend to just 
take the Stream.

Mike Freeman, President
NFB of Washington

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miracles Realty Breger" <miraclesrealty at sbcglobal.net>
To: <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:42 AM
Subject: [blindkid] Bookport


I have a bookport that was given to my daughter that we never quite 
figured out how to use. In the meantime, her school has a Victor Stream 
Reader that will be hers so she will not have a use for the bookport.

If anyone could use it, I will gladly give it away!

e-mail me offline with any questions or interest at 
miraclesrealty at sbcglobal.net

Thanks,
Linda Breger

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