Yes, and you also must be home and therein lies the problem, I can't do this from work and most days I am gone from 6:30 AM until 7 PM.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cristóbal Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App If you ever have to send something via priority mail, the USPS will pick it and any other mail up. I sell on eBay and Amazon and have around four to five pick ups a week. In fact, that was how I sent off an old player that I had replaced because the battery was konking out on me after only a couple of hours. My mail carrier comes to my door and I just hand the orders for that day to her and that's it. Nice and convenient. The pick ups are scheduled through their website and you have to have an account with them, but it's free and easy enough to set up. If nothing else, it's always good to have as something in your back pocket should you ever need to get any mail or packages out and can't count on a ride or for someone to take it for you. But anyway, regarding the app, if it'll behave similarly to how the dedicated player does and offers increased faster playback speed than what any app is currently offering, talk about all-in-one accessibility heaven. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: NLS Update on Talking Book App Records were scratched, cassette tangled, digital is great although some of the older titles are a bit muffled. I just hope the app comes sooner rather than later. Sometimes the speaker on my phone is better than the Stream and since I ended up with one of the simple NLS machines when I asked for Advanced, if the book is marked up at multiple levels and I don't plan to read it straight through I use the stream, only good thing about the simple NLS player in my humble opinion is the speaker, I use it for the cartridge magazines, keep a few more muffled titles on a thumb drive but for the most part I don't use it a lot, I prefer navigation on the Stream no matter how you cut it, and hope it will be similar on the iPhone app. If there were a magic way to get the NLS player back to the library instead of having to take it to a physical post office I'd call and request the advanced but with my work schedule the time I often must spend at the hospital and such, I don't go to the post office except once in the past three years to get a certified letter and I was not happy about that, had to find a willing ride to pick it up and it took 8 days before I could get there and then the letter was really not worth the hassle. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Barry Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NLS Update on Talking Book App I have nothing but bad memories of books on records. Not only was there a lot of flipping and switching but the worst part was all the damage done to the platter by previous users. Pops, click and worst of all track jumping. Cassettes were much better. Besides all that, they had the advantage of size and that your place was held if you paused one title and started another. Sound quality was good enough for voice recordings. Digital has been a vast leap forward. I love my Streams and we'll see what develops with the apps for the two smartphone OSes. At 12:36 PM 5/25/2013, you 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: <mailto:[email protected]>Chuck Dean >To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >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 ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> 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: <mailto:[email protected]>Joe >>To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>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: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel >>Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 PM >>To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>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/[email protected]/>http://www.mail >>-arc hive.com/[email protected]/. >>To post to this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit this group at >><http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en>http://groups.google.com >>/gro up/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 >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit >><https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>https://groups.google.com/gr >>oups /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/[email protected]/>http://www.mail >>-arc hive.com/[email protected]/. >>To post to this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit this group at >><http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en>http://groups.google.com >>/gro up/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 >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit >><https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>https://groups.google.com/gr >>oups /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/[email protected]/>http://www.mail >>-arc hive.com/[email protected]/. >>To post to this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]. >>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit this group at >><http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en>http://groups.google.com >>/gro up/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 >><mailto:[email protected]>viphone+unsubscribe@googl >>egro ups.com. >>For more options, visit >><https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>https://groups.google.com/gr >>oups /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/[email protected]/>http://www.mail- >arch ive.com/[email protected]/. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/ >grou p/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 [email protected]. >For more options, visit ><https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>https://groups.google.com/gro >ups/ 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/[email protected]/>http://www.mail- >arch ive.com/[email protected]/. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at ><http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/ >grou p/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 [email protected]. >For more options, visit ><https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out>https://groups.google.com/gro >ups/ opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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