[Reader-users] How do you use yours?

[Lewis, Graham]

I tend to use mine to access fairly short documents away from the office.  I attend a lot of meetings and do not always get all the dicumentation in advance.  Of course if there are handouts during a meeting it is still difficult on practice to start snapping away while everybody is talking.
 
I tracel on trains quite a lot and have not yet tired capturing material when on a train.  I suspect vibtation and jolting would rule that out even if I could find the spaceor ecen a seat!
 
I could see that I might scan a longer document while in a hotel room at a conference but I wonder how many pages I could scan before replacing the camera battery.  Yes we have a spare which could be charging.  A tripod might be useful then but I can't see me dragging it about on the off chance that I might do this.  I already cause havoc at the airport when they see all my gadgets.
 
Having said all that, I am a dabbler and like, I suspect, others here I always want to fiddle with anyu new device to see what else it can do. 
 
Like the Bookcourier that is now almost part of my body, the reader is one of those devices that I suspect will become a part of my everyday life.
 
The chargers are not quite so neat for the UK market.  That nice fold away camera battery charger has a long cable in the UK and does not fit in the carrying case.  The PDA charger with its three prong plug really crowds the carrying case.  I would like to suggest that the carrying case be a little bogger for the UK market.
 
Graham
 
Graham Lewis
Centre for Academic Practice
University of Warwick
University House
Kirby Corner Road
Coventry CV4 8UW
UK
Email: graham.lewis at warwick.ac.uk
Tel.: (+44) (0) 24 765 72737
Mobile: 07703100401 
Fax.: (+44) (0) 24 765 72736
Blog: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/glewis/

 

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From: reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org on behalf of mhingson
Sent: Wed 29/11/2006 05:10
To: 'Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list'
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Reading books with the KNFB reader



All,

It seems to me that in fact the reader can and will be used to read long
documents and books.  Why not?

The whole idea is to be able to read materials while away from home base or
when not in front of a computer with K1000 or some other PC-based OCR
engine.  I have used the reader to scan long reports. I use it to read a
great deal while traveling.

Batch scanning while preserving the information we now receive about page
orientation during each scan is a good idea.

I wonder if there are any plans to survey current users concerning features
we would like to see.  I am sure a huge suggestion list has been compiled
which would make a great survey list. 

-----Original Message-----
From: reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Jones
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:53 PM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Reading books with the KNFB reader

the batch is a must. Now I have to tell it to save images and then when
it begins to process them cancel it and then take the next picture. If
it could save the pic and then have a timer x seconds later take the
next shot, that would be wonderful.
Also, there's no way to select more than one image for processing at a
time from the file mode.
Might be nice if there was a status in the settings some where that kept
track of how many shots you've taken. Maybe the user could decide if it
reset when you turn it on or not. This could be used to keep track of
how many shots you've taken on a current camera battery. -- Would like a
low battery alert on the reader itself.

Kevin
Beth Wright wrote:
> I, too, am intrigued by the possibility of reading books with the KNFB
> reader.  It recognizes so many types of print.  Why waste all that on
> handouts and junk mail?  It sounds as though some people are reading books

> with it already.  If so, and you have any tips and tricks, please send
them
> on, and I'd be in favor of adding at least a few book-reading features to
> future upgrades.
>
> Beth
>
>
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Re: [Reader-users] Reading books with the KNFB reader
I tend to use mine to access fairly short documents away from the office.  I attend a lot of meetings and do not always get all the dicumentation in advance.  Of course if there are handouts during a meeting it is still difficult on practice to start snapping away while everybody is talking.
 
I tracel on trains quite a lot and have not yet tired capturing material when on a train.  I suspect vibtation and jolting would rule that out even if I could find the spaceor ecen a seat!
 
I could see that I might scan a longer document while in a hotel room at a conference but I wonder how many pages I could scan before replacing the camera battery.  Yes we have a spare which could be charging.  A tripod might be useful then but I can't see me dragging it about on the off chance that I might do this.  I already cause havoc at the airport when they see all my gadgets.
 
Having said all that, I am a dabbler and like, I suspect, others here I always want to fiddle with anyu new device to see what else it can do. 
 
Like the Bookcourier that is now almost part of my body, the reader is one of those devices that I suspect will become a part of my everyday life.
 
The chargers are not quite so neat for the UK market.  That nice fold away camera battery charger has a long cable in the UK and does not fit in the carrying case.  The PDA charger with its three prong plug really crowds the carrying case.  I would like to suggest that the carrying case be a little bogger for the UK market.
 
Graham
 
Graham Lewis
Centre for Academic Practice
University of Warwick
University House
Kirby Corner Road
Coventry CV4 8UW
UK
Email: mailto:graham.lewis at warwick.ac.uk graham.lewis at warwick.ac.uk
Tel.: (+44) (0) 24 765 72737
Mobile: 07703100401
Fax.: (+44) (0) 24 765 72736
Blog: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/glewis/ http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/glewis/
 
From:
reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org on behalf of mhingson
Sent:
Wed 29/11/2006 05:10
To:
'Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list'
Subject:
Re: [Reader-users] Reading books with the KNFB reader
All,
It seems to me that in fact the reader can and will be used to read long
documents and books.  Why not?
The whole idea is to be able to read materials while away from home base or
when not in front of a computer with K1000 or some other PC-based OCR
engine.  I have used the reader to scan long reports. I use it to read a
great deal while traveling.
Batch scanning while preserving the information we now receive about page
orientation during each scan is a good idea.
I wonder if there are any plans to survey current users concerning features
we would like to see.  I am sure a huge suggestion list has been compiled
which would make a great survey list. 
-----Original Message-----
From: reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org
[ mailto:reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org mailto:reader-users-bounces at nfbnet.org
] On Behalf Of Kevin Jones
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:53 PM
To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader users list
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] Reading books with the KNFB reader
the batch is a must. Now I have to tell it to save images and then when
it begins to process them cancel it and then take the next picture. If
it could save the pic and then have a timer x seconds later take the
next shot, that would be wonderful.
Also, there's no way to select more than one image for processing at a
time from the file mode.
Might be nice if there was a status in the settings some where that kept
track of how many shots you've taken. Maybe the user could decide if it
reset when you turn it on or not. This could be used to keep track of
how many shots you've taken on a current camera battery. -- Would like a
low battery alert on the reader itself.
Kevin
Beth Wright wrote:
> I, too, am intrigued by the possibility of reading books with the KNFB
> reader.  It recognizes so many types of print.  Why waste all that on
> handouts and junk mail?  It sounds as though some people are reading books
> with it already.  If so, and you have any tips and tricks, please send
them
> on, and I'd be in favor of adding at least a few book-reading features to
> future upgrades.
>
> Beth
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Reader-users mailing list
> Reader-users at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/reader-users http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/reader-users
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