[Dtb-talk] A BookShare Book and DAISY Players

[Dan Burke]

Mike,

I'll download it and see.  You didn't by chance download a version
with images, did you?

Dan

On 9/11/11, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Hello.
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> Is anyone on this list using a Book Port Plus and has a BookShare
> membership? I'd be curious as to whether the BP+ can handle the following
> BookShare book in DAISY format: Windows Power Shell Cookbook by Lee Homes. I
> haven't tried this with Amis or FSReader on a PC but Internet Explorer on
> the PC almost chokes on the XML file due to its complexity. Both the
> BookSense and BrailleSense Plus are brought to their knees with this book
> due to running out of memory. The Victor Reader Stream, on the other hand,
> handles the book although it takes a glacial age to process before beginning
> reading. I'm curious as to what happens when one tries to read this book
> with the Book Port Plus.
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> I suspect that the reason the HIMS products can't handle the book is to the
> relative primitiveness of memory allocation and paging under Windows CE. The
> Stream, by contrast, runs a flavor of LINUX so I surmise can handle the
> virtual memory required to deal with the complexity of this book.
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> T I A.
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> Mike Freeman
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