I don't doubt that for a minute, but not all of us are that adept at 
running such things.  I have an ipod and it drives me nuts.  It just 
isn't as nice as having buttons to push.  There are those who lover 
their apple stuff and can do wonderful things with them, I'm not one of 
those people, just to dumb I guess.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
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Wallace, ks.


On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Russ Kiehne wrote:

> With the following apps on my ipad mini, I can do everything the Blaze
> does and more minus the ocr.
>
> Bard mobile: I can read nls books on it.  Books can be directly
> downloaded to the ipad mini.
>
> Audible: I can read books from audible.  Books can be directly
> downloaded to the ipad mini.
>
> Kindle: I can read Kindle books from Amazon.
>
> Learning Ally: I can read books from Learning Ally.  I can directly download
> books to my Ipad mini.
>
> Boice dream reader: I can read books from bookshare,  unprotected epub.
>  Supported File Formats PDF, EPUB (DRM free), DAISY 3.0 text-based
> eBooks, DAISY 2.02 audiobooks, Zipped MP3 files, such as LibriVox, Plain
> Text, Rich Text Format (RTF), Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint,
> Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, HTML, What's nice about voice dream reader,
> you can download books from both bookshare and Project Gutenberg
> directly to the ipad mini.  Voice dream reader is supplied with Acapela
> Heather.  You have the optionof using Neospeech or Ivona.
> Personally, I like Neospeech better than Acapela.  I haven't tried Ivona
> as of yet.
>
> LibriVox audio books pro: I can stream or download books from LibriVox
> or a large selection of old time radio shows.  The thing I like about
> this app, it will resume playback when streaming content.
>
> Downcast: I can download podcasts directly to the ipad mini.  I can
> subscribe and unsubscribe to podcasts on the Ipad mini.
>
> Tune in radio pro: TuneIn lets you listen to and record the world’s
> radio with
> sports, news, talk and music streaming from every continent. Enjoy
> 100,000 live radio stations and 2 million podcasts, concerts or shows on
> your iPhone, iPad and
> iPod.  Record your favorite stream.
>
> ooTunes: Radio - Recording and Alarm Clock!  INFINITE Tunes, Talk,
> Sports, and Entertainment Radio.  over 36,000 web radio stations.
>
> The ipad mini has  dual-channel 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi.
> The blaze has 2.4 GHZ 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi.
> The Ipad mini has Bluetooth 4.0.
> The Blaze has bluetooth 3.0
> Both the Ipad mini and Blaze have two speakers.
> The Blaze has no telephone style keybad.
> The Blaze uses Acapela as it's tts.
>
> My Ipad mini is my most used device!
>
>
> On 7/9/2014 8:41 AM, richard fiorello wrote:
>> Hi;
>> for 695.00 it should be a quality machine.  If its not going to
>> do most of the things I want might just stick with the old
>> booksense or upgrade to a stream.  I didn't really have a need
>> for the o c r and I suspect that's what they're focusing on.
>> richard
>> sent from my braille note
>>
>
>