[nfb-talk] new accessibility to materials

[T. Joseph Carter]

CDs have the advantage that they cost more to mail than to produce.
Nobody is going to care if a CD is lost, damaged, or what have you.  The
cartridges used by NLS must be sent to you and then returned because they
aren't cheap.  You cannot play a cartridge on a computer without a card
reader device that simply doesn't exist at this time.

NLS books cannot be copied to a BookPort or a BrailleNote, and the NLS
still tends to believe that one size fits all, even if that one size is
too big to carry with you.


I hope RFB&D will maintain the use of cheap, almost throwaway CDs until
such time as one can simply download the books and burn a CD if we want
them as a faster delivery mechanism.  I hope to see wide support for
AudioPlus until such time as RFB&D moves to an industry standard.  I also
hope that the NLS will wake up and join the 1990s sometime this century.
I have faith that  all but the last of these are very likely.


On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 04:58:09PM -0600, Peter Donahue wrote:
> Hello Buddy and listers,
> 
> But you still must be a registered member/borrower of Bookshare.org, NLS, or
> RFB&D to access their collections. I'll be interested to see if RFB&D moves
> from CDS to cartridges similar to those which will be used by NLS to address
> this matter. Only time will tell.
> 
> Peter Donahue