I have been using the BookSense XT for several months. Here is why I have chosen it over some of the other players.
I use the BookSense for my travel alarm. I like having this alarm feature along with the FM Radio. As for the speed, this is not an issue for me. The only time I crank things up is when I am reading something technical or something related to a course I might be taking. For that I use a PC. For me the BookSense is used for leisure reading so I am quite comfortable with human narration at normal speaking rates. Sometimes if a narrator is a little to relaxed, I will move the rate up by one to get it closer to a normal rate of speech. I use the text to speech features for documents when going to meetings. I like being able to skim through MS Word, text, or HTML files. The drawback here for me is that the BookSense needs a better way to search for text. Another deciding factored for me is the quality of music recordings. The BookSense does a slightly better job in the playback of music than the others I tried first when making my decision. One fix that I feel is required is when playing DAISY books that have been generated by a utility like the DAISY Book Generator, the BookSense from time to time will not play the entire audio file. The last five to fifteen seconds is cut off every now and then. I know this is an issue specific to the BookSense, because playing the same folder on other players does not yield the same results. Traditionally updates from GW Micro are not as frequent as some of the other companies. If there is a major bug, I find that GW Micro does a good job in getting out a fix. Their updates are often more stable than other companies. Vic -----Original Message----- From: Joseph C. Lininger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 5:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: book sense requesting opinions Howdy folks, I've been considering purchasing a digital book reader. I am wary of Humanware products for a couple of reasons, which I don't feel it necessary to go into here. I was thinking of purchasing a book sense, since I own several GW Micro products and have been happy with just about all of them. I have Window-Eyes, a Voice sense, and a Sync Braille. The Voice Sense I don't really use because it doesn't meet all of my portable computing needs, but I've played with it anyway and its a nice device in spite of that. I need something that is portable and can read rfb&d (this is an absolute requirement, not a maybe). I see from the web site that the book sense products now do support RFB&D. Do all models support that? And can anyone tell me there experiences using this product? I need to make my dicision soon, so any feedback any of you can give on the book sense line of products would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- They say god has always been. Linux and I will now disprove that: $ ar m God ar: creating God There you have it. God was created by the ar program. Good news is, God really does exist! Joseph C. Lininger, <[email protected]> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
