Even though the NLS digital player is the last holdout for me and my
digital reading, meaning that all my other reading is done on the iPhone
or now, ipad, I think I will still keep the player when the NLS app
comes out. However because I'm a technogeak I still can't wait to do
everything on the iPhone or iPad. On a slightly different reading topic,
lately I've been switching reading the same Audible audio book between
the iPhone and iPad and the syncing works awesome between the 2. If I'm
at home I use the iPad and if I'm out on the bus and waiting around I
use the iPhone and I don't lose my place.
--
Raul A. Gallegos
I love my mother, but my feelings for my spot are much greater. -
Sheldon Cooper
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On 5/25/2013 12:22 PM, Alan Paganelli wrote:
I agree. choice is good!
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Arnold Schmidt <mailto:arno...@mindspring.com>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:18 AM
*Subject:* Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App
They definitely got it right with their digital player, right out of
the box, as opposed to taking years to get their cassette player to
be acceptable. As for converting their analog library to digital, I
am all for it, so I can read them with their player, my stream, or
maybe, one day, their app.
Arnold Schmidt
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*From:* Alan Paganelli <mailto:alanandsuza...@earthlink.net>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:36 PM
*Subject:* Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App
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.
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*From:* Chuck Dean <mailto:chuckd...@icloud.com>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
<mailto: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
<mailto: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>
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*From:* Joe <mailto:jsoro...@gmail.com>
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
<mailto: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>
[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
<mailto: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
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