# play away?

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by redgirl34 (Scottish) on Sunday, 05-Feb-2012 8:13:04

Hi, has anyone ever heard of a play away? It is the first pre-loaded digital audio book. Has any other countries got it apart from the UK?

## Post 2 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Monday, 06-Feb-2012 16:36:16

I used one once when my NLS cooperating library announced that they had them. I got the list of books they had available and requested one. It was my first experience with a digital book. Ive also heard that airports here in the U.S. sell them to passengers looking for something to do on the plane. I suppose public libraries also have them. But with the popularity of e-readers now and other forms of digital books that can be downloaded, I doubt if playaways are very popular.

## Post 3 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2012 19:04:58

at ince point a ouple of them were shipped off the washington state school for the blind, but they didn't realy take off because of the stream.

## Post 4 by redgirl34 (Scottish) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2012 19:37:48

How lon have they been in the USA? Only 1 year in the UK. I am enjoying the play away so far.

## Post 5 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Saturday, 11-Feb-2012 19:40:04

at my school they were here for only for like 6 months.

## Post 6 by Sarah92 (Account disabled) on Friday, 02-Mar-2012 3:46:34

This is very interesting I have never heard of a play away until now.

## Post 7 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Sunday, 04-Mar-2012 18:15:11

It was a bit of a flop. blame it on the nls players.

## Post 8 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2012 19:11:45

the sounds quolety is horid. Tha'ts my main thing agenst them .

## Post 9 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Thursday, 19-Apr-2012 11:13:25

nls destributed the player in 2004. it failed teribly.

## Post 10 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Friday, 20-Apr-2012 17:05:41

I had one from my local library once. ugh ugh ug. spoken audio. Sounds like that should never be heard in anybody's eardrumbs! I feel genuinly sorry for the next person that was subjective to such crappy audio! If it sounded like that no wonder it failed!

## Post 11 by SavannahPhilHarmonicMusician (Veteran Zoner) on Friday, 20-Apr-2012 19:18:21

I think they are quite neat. I got some from the military one source program.

## Post 12 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Friday, 20-Apr-2012 19:21:42

I didn't think the sound was bad for the one and only time I ever got a book on a PlayAway. But I do much prefer using the BARD program now and the larger, better quality digital machines available.

## Post 13 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Friday, 20-Apr-2012 22:07:05

yes the quality was pretty good for something that tiny.

## Post 14 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 21-Apr-2012 5:41:21

BARD has good audio for compressed sound. the play away I had the speech's highs were missing, it had a swerly sound to it. sounded like listening to an audio stream on a dial-down connection.

## Post 15 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Tuesday, 08-May-2012 5:52:44

dial-up, you mean.

## Post 16 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 04-Jun-2012 21:38:54

nope. dial-down. grins

## Post 17 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2012 13:37:12

what's the difference.

## Post 18 by rat (star trek rules!) on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2012 15:15:54

there is no difference, people call it that because of it's speeds.

## Post 19 by Espking (Zone BBS is my Life) on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2012 16:09:20

oh. Jh made me think that dial down and dial up are 2 different things.