All true, Russ. I love those apps on my iPhone. I really did enjoy having a separate player that didn't kill my phone battery to read with, though. Still, how HW handles my case will determine whether or not I get another player from them. I may just get external batteries and have done with them.

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> On Apr 12, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Russ Kiehne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I took a lot of time thinking about if I should buy a second generation 
> victor reader Stream.  From listening to several podcasts, It would be my 
> choice of players if it's not for the fact I can do the same things I would 
> with it using the following apps on my ipad mini.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Youtube:  I can use the Google youtube app to watch videos on my ipad mini.
> 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Buddy Brannan
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2015 6:13 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: A Recent Interaction With HumanWare
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I have the Book PortPlus, and it works all right, but as you say, for =
> features and UI, the Stream has it beat. Except on customer service. =
> Excellent design of a player though, shame the company is so rotten.
> 
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