[nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons

[Ashley Bramlett]

Chelse,
Thanks for this information.  Good to know about the download process.  I do 
have web braille.
Does Human ware stream come with the VR stream unit?  What does it do?

Ashley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chelsea Cook" <astrochem119 at gmail.com>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] VR Stream pros and cons


> Ashley,
>
>  I love my Stream! At first I was reluctant to get one, but then I found 
> out what it can do.  I use it all the time for reading books from NLS and 
> RFBD.  It is easy to get authorization keys from these places.  If you 
> have a Web Braille account or are affiliated with your library, you should 
> be able to complete an application for the new download site.  With RFBD, 
> go to your My Account on the online version and select "Authorize New 
> Player." Then you just type in the serial number.  I don't use it for 
> recording as much now, but that may change.
>  There is a program that comes with it called HumanWare Stream Companion. 
> This makes your talking books from NLS easy to transfer.  RFBD is more 
> tedious, but I'm trying to see if there's an easier way to do it.  You can 
> create bookmarks and transfer notes (recordings), to your computer with 
> this program.  I've never tried playlists, but I love the Random music 
> feature, similar to the concept of the IPod shuffle.  You can't navigate 
> by song title and artist, per se, but if you know how your music structure 
> is laid out, you can find a specific song by knowing its file and folder 
> coordinates.  The Stream will accept those.  The only other problem I face 
> sometimes is with the NLS books, you can't do page navigation.  It doesn't 
> support Word documents yet.  Only t x t, b r f, and Html.  You can do word 
> searches in these documents, and it makes it easier if you know how to 
> text because it uses those same conventions for numbers.  I haven't had 
> the practice yet.
>  Overall: If you're in college and use NLS and RFBD for most of your 
> reading, it's an excellent, all-in-one device.  You can put up to a 16 gig 
> HC SD.  card in it (I hear it has issues with anything higher), as well as 
> USB flash drives.
> Hope this helps,
> Chelsea
> "I ask you to look both ways.  For the road to a knowledge of the stars 
> leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been 
> reached through the stars."
> Sir Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist (1882-1944), Stars and Atoms 
> (1928), Lecture 1
>
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