OU niggles
Up til now I’ve had my OU books as real books but also as tapes. Now, the tapes are lovely, tend to get spread all over the place but still, lovely. I can settle down comfortably with a tape player, some headphones and listen whilst I follow in the book which means I get through the text way, way faster than just reading it.
But the RNIB, who produce all the tapes for the OU, have decided to move with the times and start supplying stuff as "Daisy books" instead. These are nifty little CD things where the text is read by a computer voice but you need the right "decoding" software or player to access them.
Now, I have software that will do it on my PC but really, really I would prefer not to have to do all my studying on a hard chair at a cluttered desk (and yes, I know, I could declutter but let’s face it, it’s not going to happen… and my chair will still be hard!) But the portable readers are £££ and somehow I don’t think that the OU will provide me with one as I have an adequate alternative. So this could be the last year I get the luxury of studying in comfort or away from my desk (so at camp, at Oulton etc) unless I fork out about £300.
Grump.
