Well, all things considered, the worst sounding talking book is better than no talking book.
Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. On May 25, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Chuck, the sad thing is, I can remember when Talking books came on a 12 inch > record and they played at 33 and a third RPMs and was ticked off when they > went to 10 inch records at 16 RPMs and then all that new-fangled cassettes > thing on 2 tracks. That wasn't good enough though for them, They then had > to go from 2 track to 4 tracks and then they went a step farther and cut > playback speed in half. They said quality wouldn't suffer but they were > wrong. It did. The best thing to happen to talking books was they went > digital. Sound quality went up greatly if you were listening to a new > recording but then trouble struck again with budget cuts. Far fewer new > books were being recorded and they started emptying out the tape libraries > and digitizing those along with some restorazations of older books on record. > Still, the best sounding recordings come from new books being recording for > the first time. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chuck Dean > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:19 AM > Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App > > Hi Joe, > While I am looking forward to the IOS app, there is something about using the > talking book machine supplied by NLS that is comforting. I like the physical > buttons and the sturdy feel of the machine. Perhaps it is just a throwback to > when I first started using talking books on cassette... Which was a big deal > back then. > > Chuck (mobile) > Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. > > On May 25, 2013, at 9:12 AM, Alan Paganelli <alanandsuza...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > >> I have to agree with you here. I have an iPhone 4 and even a Nano 5 >> and yet I still take my Victor Reader Stream with me. The 1 thing I do like >> about the new Stream is it's ability to be recharged via a USB connector >> this saving the need for yet one more recharger in the bag. Still, it would >> be nice to have a talking book handy for those times when your sitting >> around with your thumb up your nose waiting for something or some one! <grin> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Joe >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 6:20 PM >> Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App >> >> I'm an iPhone user, and I still use a Victor Stream to listen to NLS books. >> I prefer the convenience of tactile buttons to navigate, quickly stop/start, >> and change formats. It's going to take me a long time to get used to a touch >> screen to do things you can easily accomplish with a keypad.--Joe >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Sieghard Weitzel >> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App >> >> Hi Christopher and John, >> >> Many on this list who take full advantage of all the wonderful features and >> capabilities of the iPhone forget that there are still a lot of people out >> there who are blind or visually impaired and who either don't want or don't >> need a smartphone which comes with half a mortgage in the form of an >> expensive monthly plan. >> >> For me the Stream or Booksense both of which I owned at one point also don't >> have any attraction anymore and instead of spending $300 or $350 or whatever >> these devices cost nowadays on one of these I'd much rather buy an iPod >> Touch or iPad Mini as a companion device for my iPhone. But, as I >> said, a >> lot of blind people are perfectly happy with a Stream or Booksense and I >> would imagine it will be quite a while yet before such specialty devices >> become obsolete. Oh, maybe a Stream or Booksense doesn't have much to do >> with an iPhone, but I think it's OK to discuss them in the context of >> services like NLS and I guess if Raul or Cara don't agree they will let us >> know. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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