[stylist] Humanware Anyone?

[William L Houts]

Hi Thea,

I think you have to buy the VRS Mark 2 if you want to visit Bookshare, 
access the wikis and all that jazz.  Like I said, it's pretty pricey for 
wee little blinkies on our wee little disabilitty checks, but well worth 
the cost.



--Bill
















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On 3/15/2014 5:10 PM, Miss Thea wrote:
> Bill, I have a Stratus. I wonder if I can do all that stuff with it?
> The Victor Stratus is a lean, mean, reading machine, but I never read 
> in the help file where I could get access to a dictionary or thesaurus.
> Those, IMO, are a writer's best friend.
> Anyone know of a good dictionary and thesaurus one can download from 
> the net, or are Word's thesaurus and research tools quite sufficient?
> Thea
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> -----Original Message----- From: William L Houts
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> Just wondering if any of my new friends here has acquired Humanware's
> Victor Reader Stream Mark 2.  You can keep around 100 books on a 32GIG
> SD card, download Bookshare books, listen to podcasts and music. And as
> of a couple of weeks ago, you can tune into hundreds of Internet radio
> stations, as well as look up words and phrases on Wikipedia and
> Wictionary.  Costs around $400.00, which isn't cheap when you're on a
> fixed income, but I've found it to be well well well worth it.
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