Hey Guys,

I really do like the Book Sense a lot, but there's one thing that seems a bit 
illogical to me: When I'm in the Music folder, I can't move among tracks with 
the left and right arrows. I have to be *on* the Music folder, not *in* it. 
When I'm inside the Music folder, I can up and down arrow to hear the titles of 
tracks when I'm not playing one. But when I hit Play, the left and right arrows 
just ding at me. I thought the machine was malfunctioning at first, but when I 
called GW Micro, Mike told me that that is how it's supposed to work. (I've 
read most of the manual, but either that was not clearly stated, or--more 
likely--I missed it, thinking that it would work the way I think it should.) I 
can only use the left and right arrow keys to move among tracks when I'm 
sitting *on* the Music folder, but not when I'm inside it. However, when I'm 
inside the Music folder, the up and down arrows give the various movement 
options, One Track, "Five Tracks, and First and Last Track. So if the up and 
down arrows give the movement options, shouldn't the left and right arrows move 
through the tracks according to the spoken options while inside the Music 
folder? That seems only logical to me. Why give the movement options in a 
situation when the user can't use them? It seems more reasonable to assume that 
when you choose a movement option inside the Music folder, then the Book Sense 
should move among the songs by that option when you hit the left or right arrow 
key.

What do you all think? Am I the oddball here, or is this something they should 
alter? I understand that for reading books, you may not want to skip around 
from book to book the way you might with songs. But maybe some people would, I 
don't know. For music, though, the current setup seems slightly strange to me. 
Is the way the Booksense works the same way other devices work, such as Streams 
or I-Pods? Or do they work more the way I think the Book Sense should? If they 
all work the way the Book Sense currently does, then I guess I'll get used to 
it, although I think it is counterintuitive, as well as less useful. Is this 
something that has already been discussed here? Apologies if this is old 
ground. I'm completely new to portable devices of this kind, as if you couldn't 
tell from the above. <smile>

Thanks for any feedback.

Evan

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