I really think that it might be worth it atsome point for HW to support
Audible and Overdrive, even for a price. A certain competitor of the BN,
whose dreaded name I won't mention, has supported Audible for some time.
That device also supports DAISY files, including those from Bookshare. Lack
of support for these features could conceivably cut into HW's market. When
I was selecting my device, I disliked some of the other traits of
That-Device-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named, especially the way the hookup between
the removable Braille display and the unit itself looked like a big, bad
accident waiting to happen. I certainly don't regret my choice of BN, but
many users might select one of the devices that supports the media types
that most hearing blind people want to use.
----- Original Message -----
From: "denise avant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading books
Hello ann,
Overdrive media uses windows media player for its support in playing audio
books. Audible uses mp3 files but uses some sort of propriatary means for
its books. I've been told and so have others on the list that it's a
question of hw gaining the rights to provide us with these books.
Now I don't know how you took it, but I wasn't criticizing hw. I was
merely
pointing out that we need as many ways to access books as possible. And
the
web braille situation highlights this.
I mean it is really sort of a slap in the face to its consumers that nls
drops the program with no warning or clear explanation as to why.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann K.
Parsons
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:33 AM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] reading books
Hi Denise,
The folks at Humanware should have no problem with the Net Library books,
if
they can get the hardware and software to play them. After all, you can
play them now in any commercial MP3 player. That's the whole point of the
thing, that they are portable. You download them, and then they get
erased
on your computer after three weeks. I don't think the files disappear if
you put them on a CF card or whatever.
The thing that the Humanware folks have to figure out is what media these
files are in and what sampling rate, etc. I believe that Net Library uses
WMA, but not sure.
Ann P.
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