In regard to your comments below about the speed with which the book Sense either opens a book or navigates to a new section:
1. Is this true of the Victor Stream also? This sounds like an excessive amount of time to wait just to open a book or switch sections. With proper use of file pointers, indexing, and buffering, there is no reason this shouldn't be very snappy. What is the benchmark data here for other similar devices? I've never experienced such sluggishness even on my aging Bookport. 2. Will the next upgrade be fixing these issues? These sound like pretty serious limitations. -----Original Message----- From: Suleyman Gokyigit [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GW-Booksense] Issues Noted in GW Micro's Online Training of October 23, 2009 I already posted this as part of another thread, but I thought I'd post it again here under its own subject line, as I have received some emails from folks privately expressing further interest into the issues I raised. First, I am referring to the online training that is posted as a recording on GW Micro's website at the following link: http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Presentations/audio/BookSenseOnli neTraining10-23-09.mp3 In this recording, there are three things that I have identified as worthy of a second look: First, at time index 33:05: Here, Raul is about to hit play on the music folder, "Cyndi Lauper - Greatest Hits". The expected behavior is for the Booksense to start playing all the tracks in this folder, starting from the first one. Unfortunately, it does not do this; the first track in this folder is the track "True Colors," but the Booksense starts to play the second track first, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." At time index 33:13, Raul hits the right arrow to play the second track, and it moves to the song, "True Colors," which is in fact the first song, not the second song. We can in fact see that "True Colors" is the first song in the folder at time index 38:41 when Raul hits the 0 key, and the Booksense announces the name of the file. The name of the file is "00 - True Colors.mp3." Clearly the track beginning with 00 is the first song, not the second song. So it would appear the Booksense incorrectly played the second song as the first. One final note on this point of playing the songs in the incorrect order: In the Booksense unveiling recording from June, also posted on the same page at GW Micro's website: http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Presentations/audio/booksenseunve iling.mp3 Raul does the same demonstration where he hits play on the exact same Cyndi Lauper - Greatest Hits folder, and this time, the Booksense plays True Colors as the first track, not the second (See time index 29:05 in the unveiling recording). Therefore, there is a definite problem. Next thing to note on the online training recording is at time index 41:18: Here, Raul has the book, "Wheel of Time, Book 11," open and is instructing the Booksense to move to heading number 6. It takes the unit approximately 20 seconds (from time index 41:25 to 41:45) to move to this heading. This seems like a ridiculous amount of time to me; it should be instantaneous or very close to it. Third thing to note on the recording is at time index 46:36: Here, Raul is opening the Transformers book which is in .brf format. He is using the document application to do this. I timed it, and it took the Booksense 40 seconds to open the file (from approximate time index 46:53 until time index 47:33), and you can easily see this too by looking at the time index as the Booksense opens the file. Sorry if this was a bit long, but I wanted to clearly document the behaviors that I noticed that give me some pause as to the Booksense's operation. Comments are welcome. Suleyman If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the message. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.698 / Virus Database: 270.14.57/2492 - Release Date: 11/09/09 07:11:00 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-booksense in the body of the message.
