[Electronics-talk] Digital Talking Book Players

[Jim Barbour]

When the NLS program fully rolls out, you'll get a library of congress
player for free.  The library of congress machine is a bit smaller
than the existing cassette machines, but not exactly portable.

So, a lot of people will buy a more portble NLS player.

Humanware released the "library" eddition of the stream.  All it is is
the regular stream, plus a cartridge holder (which you can buy
separately) and a media card with a bunch of free reading material on
it.

In other words, the stream library eddition is meant to make it less
confusing for folks to know exactly what you need to play library of
congress books *if* you don't download them of the internet.

To summarize...

1) You'll get a library machine for free sometime in the next while.
2) The stream, booksense, and the rest or much more portable.
3) If you can download books off the internet, then you don't need
   anything else.
4) If you want the library to send you cartridges (you don't have a
   computer, your internet connection sucks, or whatever) then you
   *can* get the cartridge holder, which makes it more convenient to
   play the cartridges on the stream.  You can buy the library
   eddition of the stream, or you can buy the cartridge holder
   separately.
5) You can also plug the catridges into the stream using one of the
   USB cables that came with the stream.
6) It's unclear if the cartridges will work with the booksense because
   the cartridge won't have the folder layout that the booksense
   needs.  I'm guessing if it doesn't work now, a future software
   upgrade will make them work.  However, there are no announced plans
   for a cartridge holder for the booksense.

Jim

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Dr. Joel L. Etra wrote:
> I was wondering the same thing. I understand that when the program fully
> rolls out, we will get one for free. 
> Didn't the Stream come out with a version specifically designed for NLS?
> 
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> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Digital Talking Book Players
> 
> In fear of starting a heated debate, I would like to ask which of the five
> or six machines that will play the new NLS digital talking books the group
> thinks is the best.
> 
> I am in the market for one and can't really decide which one to get.  The
> one I've heard the most about is, of course, the Victor Reader Stream and,
> several months ago, would have probably bought it without question.  But
> recently, I listened to an accessable devices podcast that, at least to me,
> suggested that the Book Senth was probably the best deal.
> 
> So, experiences?  Suggestions?
> 
> I would like to use it both with and without earphones and will probably
> play music, podcasts and other audio as well as the NLS books.  Not much
> interested in Audible.com books, but may use the text-to-speach feature to
> read E-books.
> 
> Darrin
> 
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