[nabs-l] daisy playback products

[Ashley Bramlett]

Joshua,
Several old players played cds; I have a victor reader wave.
which is yours?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joshua Lester
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:17 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] daisy playback products

Hi Ashley, and all.
I use the Daizy Player, that plays the CD's.
I'm hopefully going to give that back to the high school, though.
If Rehab cooperates, I'll get my Pac Mate, and then download all of my
stuff, from Bookshare.
Blessings, Joshua

On 2/15/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My last message was cut off.
> I like the ease of daisy cds.
> But products for them are being discontinued.
> Increasingly, we are getting only devices that play sd cards so you have 
> to
> download books. That is fine if you are tech savvy and have an internet
> connection and the site is accessible. For some, those variables do not
> exist though.
> Besides, I want to just pop a book in a player; its easier than 
> downloading
> for me.
> I was on learning ally’s site and saw this disappointing news. Well, I
> actually knew they discontinued the classic and bibe.
>
> It said,
> “The following players are no longer available for purchase at Learning
> Ally, but training and support materials are available for the Victor 
> Reader
> Wave, Victor Reader Vibe and Victor Reader ClassicX+ “
> The players they sell include the plextalk and vr stream.
>
> So what player do you use? I saw that learning ally sells and supports the
> vr stream and plextalk. what is the plextalk?
> I know humanware came out with the new vr stratus but of course its so
> expensive. even more expensive than the vr stream!
> I think the book sense is a daisy player too, but I don’t think it plays
> cds.
> Gee.
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