"Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6" <paulmigs at migliorelli.org> writes: > Howdy Kirk. Have you heard of any way to use bookport yet for the > transfer software needed? Didn't know if it was something we could use > yet since I gather the transferware is still win only, and I gather you > need the ware and cannot simply put files on it? Hi Paul: I'll answer what I know of your questions here rather than in the private mail you sent me. As I said in a previous message here you can certainly use e-texts on the bookport providing you place them in the notes directory. I have read two complete books this way and it worked just great. It kept track of where I left off reading when I stopped or moved to diferent files and it kept bookmarks I set. It doesn't have quite as good of navigation control as if you had run it through the transfer program but I didn't find that detracted at all from my reading pleasure. If one wanted it would be easy enough to process a file before loading it onto the unit by making each line be sentence based and removing all of the blank lines and such. In your private mail you said that you believe the transfer program convert the mp3 to .wav before downloading them. I don't know for sure about that. My reading of the bookport manual didn't seem to indicate that. It appears to me that it could play native mp3 with no prior processing. If someone has a bookport that they have loaded mp3s onto it would be an easy enough thing to check, just go to it from my computer after connecting it and look through the directories. In a way I hope it doesn't convert them before loading them because if it does that means you won't be able to load a lot of wave files on to the device before filling it. That of course depends on how large of compact flash you have but still a 512mb cf could not hold even one standard compact disk worth of audio. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
