[Electronics-Talk] Orbit Reader review

[Carol Feazell]

Hey that might be right "down town" for me. I don't want all that extra
stuff either and when I want to search, I want it to search exactly what I
want and not what it decides I might according to computer braille or any
other nonsense. Pardon me but that is the kind of thing that really makes me
angry, for example writing in grade 2 and then not being allowed to search
in same. I know some of the high-end notetakers will do that but currently I
haven't got such in my budget. Too much going on in the home front.

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The manual says it can search for up to 255 characters.
It has no internal memory.  Everything is stored on an SD card, which can be
up to 32GB.  It's the big SD card, about the size of a stamp.
Tracy


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Can it make a long list of song words? I am interested for choir and I
presume when searching, it will search exactly what I tell it to as I often
make shortcuts for book page numbers when searching. Does it have a good
deal of memory or can it use SD cards and if so, ow large.

Carol Jean

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Yeah, I bought a braille sense u2, but I don't want all that stuff that is 
on it.  Pam.

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From: Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk
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Cc: Tracy Carcione ; 'New Jersey Technology Division List'
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Orbit Reader review

I just bought the Orbit Reader from APH.  It is a braille notetaker and
reader that costs $449.  I've only had it a few days, but I'm happy with it.

It's about the size of a fat paperback book.  It has 20 braille cells.  The
braille quality is excellent.  It has no speech, and no cursor routing keys.
It makes a noise when the braille refreshes, like shuffling a deck of cards
or pushing over a line of dominoes.  I can't use it to read sneakily when
there are people around and I'm supposed to be doing something else, but
neither my husband nor I find the noise annoying.  I was concerned because I
had heard the refresh rate is slow, and I am a fast reader, but it's fast
enough not to slow me down.

It also connects via Bluetooth or USB to other devices.  I connected it to
my iPhone very easily, and it works well.  The commands when connected are
different from those in stand-alone, and I'm still learning them, but so
far, so good. Don't know why they did that-just to confuse me, I guess.



When editing, it writes exactly what I put in.  There's no translation or
formatting.  This is exactly what I want, as I tend to write in shorthand
and also frequently switch between Grade 2 and computer code.  I also use
braille music.  I don't want any translation.



If I could add something, I'd add an auto-scroll.

And it would be nice if the notetaker makers would get together and agree on
a set of standard commands, so I wouldn't have to learn a whole new set for
each one.



I've bought notetakers with all the bells and whistles, but I found I didn't
really use most of them. I keep my own version of a calendar and an address
book, and, if I want to surf the Web or mess with email, it's easy to
connect to another device to do that. Really, I could have saved myself 2000
bucks, if this had been out last time I was notetaker shopping.  It's basic,
but basic is all I need.  And the price is right.

Tracy



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