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Well I’m beginning to make my first attempts at reviewing with either video reviews but also dictation.

My Sony Digital Dictaphone arrived today and I purchased it bundled with Dragon 11 Recorder Edition. At the moment it’s learning my voice/speech and creating my profile.

I read aloud some text into the device, transferred it to my pc and imported it into the software. As this can take up to an hour depending on how much text you dictated I’ve left it analysing on the laptop.

If the transcription is more accurate than my attempts with windows 7 own voice recognition software I’ll be soon able to get some reviews I’ve had pending uploaded. So good news there.

I’ve been trying out video reviews as well, and my editing software arrived today in the same order as the Dictaphone so either way I’ll have a way to create/upload my book reviews more regularly despite my hands/wrists and other RA pain.

I’ll sign off here for now. But first let me thank everyone who has still visited my blog regardless of the lack of actual updates and a special thanks to those who have followed me in my new widget. I’m trying to check daily and return any follows where other bloggers have the same widget. If I have overlooked you just post a reply on my blog. The special GFC post at the top of the page currently would probably be the most suitable post to use if you wish to and I’ll return you follow asap.

Well my little Kodak camcorder is pretty great, good thing for me as my Olympus Digital Camera which I used previously for video clips has been damaged while it was stored away during the redecorating being done at home. It spent about 2 months packed away in the back hallway which is the coldest place in our entire home and as this was during the winter months where temps dropped to under freezing it was damaged inside. Continue reading »

Well my little pocket camcorder has arrived and is charging as I type, I also have received my gorilla-pod tripod as well. Both deliveries occurred within half an hour of each other.

I have my Physiotherapy Appointment at the hospital just before 3pm, and another therapy – this time with the Occupational therapist – at the main hospital tomorrow afternoon at 3.15pm.

As my SD card hasn’t arrived yet, the estimate is Friday/Saturday for it’s delivery, I can’t do much taping with the cam at the moment as the internal memory is only 128 MB. So I’ll just be learning the ropes so to speak until I get my memory card through and installed into the cam.

I’ve read a few books over the last month or so which I need to get reviews up on. My inability to write more than a couple of paragraphs at a time made this impossible to really get my reviews done to the my own minimum specifications for any review.

I believe if you can’t do something right I shouldn’t do it at all. A brief review not giving any real back up to my rating/grade isn’t any good as it doesn’t tell the reader why I decided on that particular rating and such.

I don’t like reading reviews that just say, “this book is *insert words*” and think that’s an adequate review. It kind of defeats the whole purpose of writing a review at all. No explanation just an brief blank statement. Valid as it’s the posters opinion but no real use to anyone reading as there is no information or background to help support/explain this statement. To be such reviews aren’t reviews they are straight forward statements.

But as my hands are beginning to hurt quite a bit I’ll sign off here for now.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post!

I must apologise once again for the sheer lack of updates on my book blog. I am just barely a month into my dual therapies at two different hospitals because of my degenerative condition.

Add to that the fact my hands have been quite badly affected and degenerated to less than 10% of the strength/grip/ability that they should have. So I am unable to type more than a few lines without a lot of pain and stiffness.

So I am been looking at alternatives to typing up a textual review, I’ve tried to create either audio or video reviews to post rather than posting nowt, and I’ve had little or no real quality success in either efforts.

So I’m looking at using my little pocket cam which I am awaiting delivery of to see if I can at least create better quality video which I might be able to embed here and avoid having to type – or attempt to type – up my full review.

I mainly have got it, or rather am waiting for it, because I like to audio or video record my personal diary, this I’ve managed to do since I can’t write/type my journal any longer. So maybe I can look to doing the main review as a video and just post it with a quick recap into posts.

I’m not sure for now but hopefully I have explained my continued absence from a blog I really love running. Or did enjoy running while able to but hope to return to fully someday.

Well it’s 2012 and the New Year has begun, so even though it’s a few days late I wish you all a happy new year and all the best for the coming year.

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