Category: accessible Devices
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?
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.
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.
How lon have they been in the USA? Only 1 year in the UK. I am enjoying the play away so far.
at my school they were here for only for like 6 months.
This is very interesting I have never heard of a play away until now.
It was a bit of a flop. blame it on the nls players.
the sounds quolety is horid. Tha'ts my main thing agenst them .
nls destributed the player in 2004. it failed teribly.
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!
I think they are quite neat. I got some from the military one source program.
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.
yes the quality was pretty good for something that tiny.
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.
dial-up, you mean.
nope. dial-down. grins
what's the difference.
there is no difference, people call it that because of it's speeds.
oh. Jh made me think that dial down and dial up are 2 different things.