Fingers Crossed!
Quite a while ago (well, feels like it anyway) I wobbled about wondering if the OU would buy me a Daisy Player ready for when tapes are no longer available for text books. Well, I heard nothing after my initital round of phonecalls and e-mails (and scanning in of the original letter because the funding dept didn’t know anything about it!) until yesterday when I got a mesage tosay taht yes, it’s quite possible that I can get funding, could I please provide tehm with an idea of cost and model so they can consider it! So, a quick look about and I found 3 all round teh same price.
This one looks perfect, not small enough to lose at the botom of my bag (blush, not that anything like mobile phones ever get lost down there….) but not so big that it will be a pain to stuff in a pocket to listen on the move. Uses SD cards so I can carry my entire "library" in a little card folder not a chunky CD wallet and looks to have a fairly simple way of "turning" to teh right "page" if you aren’t reading sequentially from teh start (oh, how that drives me mad with tapes!) Not a think of beuty by any stretch but then neither is the bag I shove all my study stuff in!
This one ( http://tinyurl.com/2mnaas )is the CD version of the above. All the same navigational features but can be mains charged rather than messing with swapping batteries and when I get bored I can shove a music CD in it but obviosuly it’s bigger and I’d need to carry round lots of CDs so not as convenitent. and for some reason the pop up for putting hot links in has thrown a wobbler!
Or there’s this rather dinky one ( http://tinyurl.com/2l945m ) which is really cute but just doesn’t look to have the functionality of the Victors as you can’t punch in page or bookmark numbers you need to scroll through. It’s also very small which makes for being really handy to carry round but also likely to wiggle down to that dark pit at the bottom of my bag never to be seen again until I turf everything out!
So it’s fingers crossed here that I can get what I want and in the mean time I’ll carry on doing the shuffle with over 100 tapes in various boxes (tow of which got knocked to the floor the toher day so are totally out of order now!)
Lol!
I am glad it isnt just me who spends all my time trying to find my place in tapes, or where the one I want is. I currently have lost my tape player, which makes it all a lot harder!
Comment by vicki — April 4, 2008 @ 7:58 am
Vicki, the secret with tape players is to have a small stash of them, ASDA sell them cheap! Then when you mislay one you can just grab another out of the drawer until the first magically turns up (usually in child’s or husband’s possession…) Oh, and small ones taht fit into your pocket (or into a folder where you keep your current study materials) are less easy to lose than big ones that you hve to leave lying round.
Comment by Administrator — April 4, 2008 @ 8:55 am
The SD one looks the best bet - rip some of your CD’s and stick them on SD cards. a couple of gigs of space is cheap as chips nowadays
Comment by DaddyBean — April 5, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
yes, DaddyBean, that’s the one I favour but it’s in the hands of the DSA office now, we don’t get to buy stuff for ourselves, they look at the options and decide for us then buy it (presumably because they can get better deals than Jo Average) and we already hvae a good stash of SD cards from Duke’s old camera.
Comment by Administrator — April 6, 2008 @ 8:12 am