You are so right.
And with this new one which has just come out, think of how much more we
will be able to do which brings up a couple of questions.
Can you take something like one of the cassette players from the library and
attach it via patch chord to the m-power and record something like a short
book or a recipe?
Also, with the m-power I have heard you can plug a cd drive into one of the
usb ports, can you read books from the cd's like that?
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
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From: "Rose Combs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] harry potter
As I have said often, the Braille Note and the ability to carry books,
not just one or two but hundreds, magazines, and then to use it for work
taking notes, keeping track of work done, taking minutes at meetings,
keeping appointments in order, calculating and all the rest is amazing.
I think that of all the technology I have worked very hard to get next
to the main computer which I have to use for work the Braille Note is
the absolute best purchase I have made. I use one of them daily,. I
have a lot of books I have downloaded that I have not read yet, several
that I have read parts of, some references for work, and if I get stuck
waiting I can select what I want to read based on the need, my mood or
the length of time I figure I will have to wait. I can carry the
library with me on a CF card. What a change from the days when my
mother would drive me to the Phoenix Center For the Blind and let me
pick out three books from their small library to read for the whole
summer. If I read them in one day, she refused to take me back to
exchange them for at least six weeks. Now I don't have to find a way to
pick up those huge boxes from the post office and return them, let alone
trip over them in my house, and I have so many more choices.
This is all thanks to the Braille Note. I may have a few things I am
not fond of, such as the e-mail client, but then, I am used to my
computer for that anyway,.
Long live the Braille note and its offspring, if I can manage it I will
try to stay as up-to-date as possible, if not, I still have the ability
to carry hundreds of titles for reading anywhere I go.
Rose Combs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann K.
Parsons
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Braillenote List
Subject: [Braillenote] harry potter
Hi all,
Just a follow-up to my note of earlier this morning. I do indeed have
all eight volumes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They
*are* there. I'm getting used to this shock, but man does it take
some getting used to! When I think that I had to wait two years for
Watership Down. When I think that there were books upon books that
all my friends were reading, and I couldn't get them because they
either weren't in the NLS process or weren't brailled or recorded.
When I think of all the times I would watch my mother going off to the
library or the bookstore and have her return hours, yes hours later
loaded down with books! It's a miracle. Oh, not a supernatural one,
but it is a technological one. To think that I can have eight volumes
of Braille on a card the size of a matchbook! I have The American
Pocket Dictionary here in hard copy Braille. It's in eight volumes.
Oh, and I didn't even mention the Bookshare books and the other books
I have on my five gig drive.
Yes, it's a shock, and it does take some getting used to. And yes,
old Isaac, you started it all, and are responsible for my fainting
spell.
<smile> My cat is so full of himself today he's demanding his treats
be given every hour since he revived me.
Sorry for the philosophizing, but I can't help it. I just can't help
it, folks!
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
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"All that is gold does not glitter.
Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
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