By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:50:39 +0000

Another excellent podcast as usual. Yes I still get books from the NLS mainly braille magazines which are Cooking Light, and Braille book review. I like the hard copy in braille, cause I can read the stuff a lot easier depending what it is. There are times where I want to look at a recipe again, and another one later on, cause in the braille edition I like the layout and how things are separated by a line or an indentation so I can tell where something ends or begins. In fact if I can I even download the electronic issue, for portability plus I have another choice to use. Even with the braille edition it is really nice to actually unplug for a while to turn off the speech and go offline to have some quiet time. Also was wondering what does everyone use in order to get a braille copy of notes or something they typed up on a PC or mobile device, cause from what I noticed in looking at the braille printers there is really no way to use WiFi capability. From what I have seen you would have to hook it up to a PC using USB and also use an expensive piece of software in order to translate from text to braille. The market should really look at an updated version of the Braille and Speak, cause from what I remember with that note taker you could actually take the cable from that and hook it up to the braille Blazer. It should really happen, since some people don't have WiFi in there area. Why can't Apple and other main stream companies think about that. I also know from what I have read not everyone can aford a braille note. That is why I think there should be an afordable note taker that has USB capability so if you want to you can hook up the note taker and braille anything from the modern braille printer. The note taker should be at least 500 dollars. What does everyone think about this idea?

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