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Audiobooks player (self.Blind)
submitted by AlterSid
Hello all,
I am currently assisting a person who has lost vision completely and would like to know if anyone here can point me to some appliance for handling audiobooks.
The easiest way for me seems to get a simple "cassette" player.. play/stop buttons and the strict "1 file or recording" at a time sounds very appealing in its simplicity.. but the technology is outdated and I do not think anyone still sells them.
Any advice? If possible, I would prefer to avoid a solution involving the use of a computer (except for initial setup of the device if needed or to transfer new files on it).
Thanks a lot!
AS
I am currently assisting a person who has lost vision completely and would like to know if anyone here can point me to some appliance for handling audiobooks.
The easiest way for me seems to get a simple "cassette" player.. play/stop buttons and the strict "1 file or recording" at a time sounds very appealing in its simplicity.. but the technology is outdated and I do not think anyone still sells them.
Any advice? If possible, I would prefer to avoid a solution involving the use of a computer (except for initial setup of the device if needed or to transfer new files on it).
Thanks a lot!
AS
kaall 2 points
Where are the audiobooks supposed to come from?
If the person is blind they probably have access to a library for the blind. The format that superseded the casette there is DAISY. It usually comes on a data CD and there are plenty of blind-user friendly playing devices, since its a format specifically designed for the blind. Such a player will be a tad more expensive than a casette player though.
It has many benefits over casette: you can easily skip around in the book, set bookmarks or other markers and almost any book fits on a single Disk. Such a player would also be able to handle regular CDs, which is what most commercial audio books come on these days.
To assess the situation with libraries for the blind and availability of daisy players it would help to know what country you are from.
If the person is blind they probably have access to a library for the blind. The format that superseded the casette there is DAISY. It usually comes on a data CD and there are plenty of blind-user friendly playing devices, since its a format specifically designed for the blind. Such a player will be a tad more expensive than a casette player though.
It has many benefits over casette: you can easily skip around in the book, set bookmarks or other markers and almost any book fits on a single Disk. Such a player would also be able to handle regular CDs, which is what most commercial audio books come on these days.
To assess the situation with libraries for the blind and availability of daisy players it would help to know what country you are from.
AlterSid [OP] 1 points
Thank you for your answer, we are located in Belgium. I will have a look at DAISY later today.
kaall 1 points
I just looked at the prices of some players and they all cost around 400€ which might be too expensive for you.
I and most of the other blind people i know use computers and cellphones for this but as i read it thats no an option for you.
I and most of the other blind people i know use computers and cellphones for this but as i read it thats no an option for you.
morecoffeepls 1 points
Hi! Were you able to figure this out?
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