{"id":1133,"date":"2009-03-01T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2009-03-01T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T12:18:41","slug":"gadgets-and-gizmos-out-the-ying-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Gadgets and Gizmos out the Ying Yang&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1137\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"BookReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketnews.ca\/\/LatestNewsHeadlines\/PlustekTurnsBooksintoAudioBooks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1137\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1137\" title=\"bookreader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bookreader.jpg\" alt=\"bookreader\" width=\"198\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plustek BookReader<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another interesting piece of machinery that can be applied to the eBook Revolution. <a title=\"Plustek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plustek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plustek<\/a> has the <a title=\"Plustek BookReader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plustek.com\/bookreader\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">BookReader<\/a>, a device that will scan in printed text (your books) and convert it into a lifelike voice (voice options there&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0At <strong>$699<\/strong> you&#8217;ve got to be serious about converting books into MP3 audio files, but the application is perfect for the visually impaired while offering hours of hands-free entertainment for commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The full story is <a title=\"Plustek Books to Audio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketnews.ca\/\/LatestNewsHeadlines\/PlustekTurnsBooksintoAudioBooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Might be time-consuming to scan the books, but worth it, if you&#8217;ve got favorites that you don&#8217;t want to replace with eBooks, or others that are out-of-print.\u00c2\u00a0The literature says it will read\u00c2\u00a0PDF files, so there&#8217;s a crossover tech to eBooks.\u00c2\u00a0Very cool, <em>yah<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000YLAXPW&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another interesting piece of machinery that can be applied to the eBook Revolution. Plustek has the BookReader, a device that will scan in printed text (your books) and convert it into a lifelike voice (voice options there&#8230;). \u00c2\u00a0At $699 you&#8217;ve got to be serious about converting books into MP3 audio files, but the application &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1133\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}