Yeh, I have six or so USB ports on my desktop as well. Maybe mine is getting a bit old, but not all of them are high speed ports. Besides, between my keyboard, mouse, bluetooth dongle, external hard drive, MP3 player, cell phone, Booksense, NLS cartridge, flash drive and so on, I don't have enough ports to keep everything plugged in all of the time, even when I split things up between the low speed and high speed ports.
I'm all for convenience but when you take into account the difference in speed between a high speed port and a low speed port, and you're talking about transferring multiple files at once, I'm just not going to wait that long! :-) As far as the life of the card is concerned, I'm no hardware engineer, but I worry more about the life of the connector in my booksense or on my PC than I do the life of the card. It's all relative though, since I really don't worry much about either. -- Christopher [email protected] From: Gary King [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 12:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Software I have 6 USB ports on my desktop, so I just leave my cable connected all the time. No searching required! It can be used with several devices besides the BookSense. I have a card reader, but I don't consider any slight increase in transfer speed to be worth the inconvenience of removing the card from the BookSense, putting it in the card reader, removing it from the card reader and putting it back in the BookSense. I also wonder if the life of the card is shortened by frequent insertion and removal. Gary King [email protected] Gary King [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher <mailto:[email protected]> Chaltain To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 10:09 AM Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Software Yeh, I was going to say there are two reasons whi I might move the SD card rather than plug my Booksense in via the USB cable. The first is that originally my SD card reader was connected to a faster USB port than the port on the USB hub I used to connect my Booksense. I've since fixed this situation, so I don't think there's as much difference in the speed of the file transfers anymore. The second reason is that sometimes it's just more convenient to slip the SD card into the front of my PC, which has a built in SD card reader than it is hunting for the Booksense cable. The Booksense cable is right here in this drawer, but so is the cable for my cell phone, NLS cartridge and so on. Finding and untangling the right cable can sometimes be a real nuisance. I'm sure I could be smarter about it though. Oh well, that's just my $0.02. -- Christopher [email protected] From: Russ Kiehne [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Software Using a card reader makes the transfers a lot faster then connecting the booksense to the computer. ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Smith <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Software On 6/19/2010 10:45 AM, Rod Gowen wrote: It would make things a lot easier for those of us who do not like to hook the unit itself up to the computer, but like to just put the SD card into the built in card reader and transfer things to it. Just for my own edification, what's the reason you typically take out the SD card of one machine, and put it in another, rather than just plugging in the BookSense? I'm not judging, just asking. I have an Cowan that uses an SD card, and the thought of taking it out and putting it back in every time I wanted to transfer something seems tiresome. Just curious. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Smith Product Support Specialist * Web Development GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team. 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. 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