I’m afraid of encountering a Victor Stream III. I bought the Stream II as an impulse buy at #ACB16 and got a lot of use out of it, but it’s been languishing in my drawer for a while. I’ve gotten used to BARD Mobile on my phone. I’m deathly afraid the Stream III will have some function or other that I’ll believe I suddenly can’t live without, even though I’ve lived without it for almost 61 years.
@Thumper1964 I've used a Victor Trek, which essentiallyy was a Stream 2 with GPS, and I eventually sold it because I just wasn't using it a lot. The Stream 3 doesn't call out to me. While I don't want an Orbit Player, I do think that it will put Orbit Research on the map in the same way that the original Stream did for Humanware. Not that Humanware wasn't already well-known and not that Orbit isn't on "the map", as it's been around for quite some time, but the Orbit Player will give them an even larger customer base and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be their biggest product.
@Thumper1964 If I were going to buy a dedicated book player, it would be a toss-up between the Evo 12 and the Orbit Player. The Evo only plays unprotected content but the majority of what I read lately falls into that category.
@Bruce @Thumper1964 I haven't finished listening to the Tek Talk presentation so there are still things I haven't heard. I do wish that the Stream 3 had Learning Ally support. I still use that service and they never seem to be a priority anymore. If the new Stream supports it, I haven't heard about it.
@Bruce @Thumper1964 When I heard the demo of the Orbit Player over a month ago, it honestly made me think that it was an Orbit Speak minus the Braille keyboard and the ability to write and manage files. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it does make me think of a scaled-down Orbit Speak Plus.
@Thumper1964 @Bruce I signed up with Learning Ally when it was RFB in high school which gives me free membership. I don't use them a lot and their iOS app leaves a lot to be desired but I've found books through them that weren't available through other sources.
@Bruce I haven’t had any dealings with Learning Ally since 2009. I joined them when I was taking some classes at a local community college and thought I could get the books I needed more easily there. Turns out #Bookshare actually served me better and it wasn’t worth the subscription price, can’t remember how much it was now. I grew up with it when it was known as RFB, and while it was great to get the books I needed, good heavens, the narration could be dreadful! I would take AI over that.
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