[Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast! Veteran's Day deal: Free Wall Chargers with Talking Mp3 Players!

[Gerald Levy]

If you want an MP3 player for playing Bookshare books in MP3 format, you can 
buy one on EBay.com for under two bucks that is very basic, but fully 
accessible.  It requires an optional  micro SD card of up to 8gb for file 
storage.  Out of curiosity, I bought one of these matchbook-size gizmos 
myself a few months ago, and I find that the sound quality is surprisingly 
good when used with a decent set of earbuds.  I use it to listen to music 
while I'm workingout, but there is probably no reason why it couldn't be 
used to listen to Bookshare books in MP3 format, as well.

Gerald



-----Original Message----- 
From: Tracy Carcione via Electronics-talk
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:45 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Cc: Tracy Carcione
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Talking Daisy Book Player & Demo Podcast! 
Veteran's Day deal: Free Wall Chargers with Talking Mp3 Players!

I think the new Daisy player would support Bookshare books, particularly
in the MP3 format, if that's helpful to anyone.
Tracy

> Please allow me to dispel any rumors being bandied around about this
> new Daisy player.
>
> 1. It was never claimed by myself that this player supported either
> NLS, Audible.com, or any other purveyor of protected file types.
>
> 2 If Learning Ally delivers their Daisy books in a protected file
> format, then they won't be supported on this new Daisy player.
>
> 3. If anyone cared to follow the link to the site they would have seen
> plain as day the statement which says "Please note that this player
> doesn't support books from audible.com or Bard/NLS."
>
> 4. I tested it with free samples of Daisy books which I found by
> googling for them as I had no Daisy book files at hand.
>
> 5. I'm pretty sure that Bard/NLS is not the sole source for Daisy
> books, in fact I know of one individual who converts his own regular
> audiobooks to Daisy books.
>
> 6. I will be contacting someone at NLS to work out how to add this
> player to those that do support NLS books.
>
> in the meantime here is a link where you can hear my interview with J.
> J. from Blind Bargains where the issue is spelled out more completely:
>
> Blind Bargains Podcast #40
> http://www.blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=13737
>
> Best regards,
>
> Laz
>
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:56:15 -0800
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> I suspect that the answer is YESÂ  -- it won't support Learning Ally
> books.
>
> Mike Freeman
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