You had better luck than I did! I kept losing my place, and getting end of
side messages while listening to the books.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
To: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
Hi Russ,
I, as stated, am still using v1.0 and have listened to over 50 NLS books
on it so far and can honestly say that I have never lost my bookmark or my
place while reading, no lockups and no dropouts.
One of these was the 800 megabyte, 75 hour Big Book Of Pulps and others
were very short.
I guess my biggest complaint, if I have one other than the pronounciation
dictionary, is in regard to the low volume of the NLS books as compared to
the volume of the book itself.
I do have one question for GW and HIMS though.
Why must we hear the TTS voice tell us the title of the book when it is
fully loaded? After all, didn't we just hear the title before we pressed
play?
It seems totally unnecessary.
In any case, I have had no problems with NLS books on this particular
unit.
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Kiehne" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
The 1.0 was unusable when it comes to listening to nls books. I don't
use playlists.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rod Gowen" <[email protected]>
To: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>; "Rich Ring"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
I bought my Book Sense standard the first day they were for sale and have
been using it every day since, with very few problems!
I have not updated the original firmware, or, I should say that I have
updated it (twice) and gone back to V1.0 each time.
I went back because I want to use playlists and they did break that in
the beta version.
As for reading NLS books, I have never lost a bookmark or had a book
refuse to play nor have I ever lost my place in one of them.
I do not use audible, so cannot comment on that.
I read my newspaper from NFB Newsline each morning and these have given
me no problem either.
I play a lot of books that I have ripped from CDs and converted to
single files and have had no trouble with these to date.
The one area that I would have to say that I am disappointed in is with
the TTS pronounciation dictionary.
Other than that, I will continue to enjoy my little unit and be waiting
patiently for any fixes and new and exciting additions to the firmware
that may be in the works and on the way.
I will say, that, if I were in Rich's position, and having as many
problems as he talks about having, I would be on the phone getting an
RMA and a new unit!
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[email protected]>
To: "Rich Ring" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor
Stream
I very seldom have a problem keeping my place reading an NLS book. I
hit the pause button and then I turn it off. I've never used bookmarks,
so I can't comment on them. I don't use audible books, either.
The few times the BS didn't keep my place were my fault, not the
BookSense.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Ring" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:24 AM
Subject: [GW-Booksense] Why I have switched back to the Victor Stream
Greetings all:
I received my Booksense at the NFB convention in early July. Until
last Wednesday, November 11, I have used it exclusively for all of my
reading needs. I love its form factor. I love its navigation
structure. I love the fact that it has a clock. I love its text to
speech voices. However, I have simply been too frustrated by other
issues to continue using the device. I shall name them here.
1. The device will not keep its place in any NLS book. If I load an
NLS book, navigate to a chapter heading, read for a few minutes and
then subsequently close that book, when I open the book again, I am
always taken back to the beginning of the book, and this is
frustrating. Certainly, I can find my place, but this behavior should
not be.
2. Suppose I am reading an NLS book, and I turn the device off. Now,
I turn it back on, and press "play" to start listening to the book.
What often happens is you get this incredible machine gun noise. You
can correct the problem by changing the navigation level, but again,
this should not be.
3. My Booksense will never save bookmarks.
4. My Booksense is not honoring headings in Audible books.
The reason I finally gave up on the unit is that I downloaded "Under
the Dome" from Audible last week, and when the Booksense kept taking me
back to the beginning of a part of the book, I'd simply had enough.
I truly love this device, but until the firmware update is released, I
will use the Stream, because it always holds my place, and it honors
Audible headings. There is only so much frustration I can deal with,
but I sincerely hope that these problems are addressed in the new
firmware, and when that firmware is released, I'll update my machine as
soon as I can. The trouble is, the Booksense used to keep its place in
NLS books, why it no longer does is a mystery to me. I even
reinstalled the firmware that came out in August, just to make sure. I
have done more than one reset, even the reset where you depress the
reset button and hold down the number 4 key.
At this point in time, unless someone has a great need to use the
device to read computer generated text, I cannot recommend this unit at
all. I hope that with the next firmware update that I will be forced
to change my mind.
Thank you all.
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