I posted the following the other day on another list.
Now you see why I like my a refurbished ipad mini. It has more volume and
better
sound than my ipod touch, victor reader stream booksense and plextalk
pocket. With being able to lock the
screen while playing audio content, I get much more play time than with my
specialized players.
With the bard mobile app, I can read nls books on it. Books can be directly
downloaded to the ipad mini. This can't be done on my specialized players.
With the audible app, I can read books from audible. Books can be directly
downloaded to the ipad mini. I can't do this with my specialized players.
With the Kindle app, I can read Kindle books from Amazon. I can't do this
with my specialized playrs.
With voice dream reader, I can read books from bookshare, unprotected epub
and other file types. I use it to read multi-part mp3 audio books.
What's nice about voice dream reader, you can download books from both
bookshare
and Project Gutenberg directly to the ipad mini. I bought the optional
neospeech voice to make it sound just like a booksense when reading any text
based file. Voice dream reader is supplied with Acapela. I
can switch between Acapela and neospeech. I can't see buying a second
generation victor reader stream inorder to download books from bookshare to
it. With the specialized players I have, I can't download books from
bookshare
to them.
With the LibriVox audio books pro app, I can stream or download books from
LibriVox or a large selection of old time radio shows. I can't do this with
my specialized players. The thing I like about this app, it will resume
playback when streaming or listening to downloaded content.
With the downcast app, I can download podcasts directly to the ipad mini. I
can subscribe and unsubscribe to podcasts on it. With my plextalk pocket, I
can't subscribe and unsubscribe to podcasts on it. With the other two
specialized players i have, I can't download podcasts to them.
My ipad mini is now my favorite device for reading books, downloading and
listening to podcasts and old time radio shows.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lou Kolb
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 7:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: stream radio
That's exactly what I do, Russ. My first generation stream still works
great, as does Ootunes on the IPod 4. If I got another book player, I
suspect it would be either a flextalk pocket or a bookport plus for the
better recorder.
Lou Kolb
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