Hi both GW staff and members of the GW-BookSense list. I just recieved my BookSense xt and I've been loving it. I am glad that I went with the BookSense but I would like to share my likes and dislikes with you all.
Pros 1 The size is great. It fits in my pocket very easily and since I'm a student it is great to grab my BookSense and go. It will be a valuable tool for my studies. 2 I love the radio. It is a lot better then I thought it would be. 3 The recording. It is useful to have a recorder for recording notes and such 4 The clock. It's nice to have a clock and alarm handy. 5 The navigation. I find that the navigation is very easy to use. cons and suggestions 1 The volume for the synthesizer and music and books aren't separate so when you are listening to a audio book for example and have it very loud when the synthesizer speaks it's very loud. I would like to see different volumes for materials and the synthesizer. 2 When I am playing an NLS book and press the mode button to go to a different mode and switch to the sd card and then switch back to the flash disk the BookSense does not remember my position. I would like this to be changed. 3 When I play a music file that is 11 minutes long the BookSense remembers the position and the only way I can go back to the beginning is to press 8 and type in 0 percent. Another thing that is annoying about this is that when it is at the end it goes on to the next track. This is all well and good but when I play the file again it does not go back to the beginning. I would like to have a feature where you can disable the remembering of files or a feature where the BookSense does not remember the position of files in the music folder. 4 When I press play or ok on a foldr the the files are not playing in the order they are suppose to. For example I have folders labeled from a to z it does not play it that way. I know this because the last file is suppose to be z but is why, and the one before that is t, and z is somewhere before those files. However when I am in the folder and select all with 7 the files play in the correct order. If GW can look into fixing that it would be great. 5 When I press 1,4, 2, 5 to go through the books in the NLS folder the BookSense sometimes locks up. ANother NLS problem I had is when I am playing a book and right arrow quickly through the chosen navigation the book stops reading. Then I press star and try to play it again the the book would read for about 10 seconds and then the BookSense would lock up. Please fix these two problems because I a lot of NLS books. Thanks for reading this email and I hope these issues can be resolved. Keep up the good work GW Micro and HIMS.
