[gui-talk] Play Away:

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

A Playaway is a hardware player with one book in its read-only memory.  The
content cannot be changed.  I guess it has been used sometimes for audio
book rentals.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Don Moore
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List
> Subject: [gui-talk] Play Away:
> 
> I was looking on the Recorded Books website to see if the Rob English
> reading of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was in MP3 format yet.
> 
> They claim to have something called Play Away which is supposed to be a
> simple digital book player.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone's checked this out?  Is it accessible and is it
> a
> proprietary format that I couldn't, for instance play the books on the
> Stream?
> 
> Thanks.
>