Jay: In order to read the book with Book Wizard, you will need to have JAWS turned off. Also, you're going to have to get a separate Authorization key specificallly for Book Wizard. That key will also work with Book Port, if you decide to purchase a Book Port. As for the other readers and products you mentioned, you're going to have to contact someone else for that, or perhaps someone else on the list can help you with those. Sincerely, Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT American Printing House For The Blind 1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206 PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307 >>> jalucard@xxxxxxxxxxxx 10/02/06 11:57AM >>> Hello everyone- I am having some major problems in reading recording for the blind talking books on cd. I'm a music composition grad student and i desperately need to start reading a book for my introduction to audio class. After waiting a few weeks, I finally received the book on cd and I also ordered the FS reader software from freedom scientific and the user authorization cd also from rfb. I thought to purchase the FS reader since you can obtain the pc and pacmate versions both at once and i figured it would work with jaws pretty well. I installed the software and called rfb in order to authorize it to play the rfb books. That went ok. I opened up the book and typed in my pin number and the book appeared. Jaws navigation worked fine going between the tree view list of chapters as well as the text window. However there was no text in the text window, just what appeared to be chapter names and page numbers. Also, the audio of the book would not play. Now i opened up the jaws6 basic training and the text appeared fine for that book but the audio still wouldn't play, also would not play in the fs reader demo included with jaws6. I tested other demos of daisy book reader software and they worked fine with the jaws book. I called FS tech support and we couldn't figure out what to do. The only thing i can think of is to upgrade to service pack 2 of windows xp but i don't think that would fix the problem either. I always make sure i have the latest versions of everything such as windows media player 10 and direct x 9.0c. So I plan on calling FS later today to see if I may get a refund on the software since it doesn't appear to work on my system. I also didn't install the pacmate program either since I was going to wait on that to support rfbd books if it ever will that is. I'm not sure what I should do now and I was wondering if anyone had any opinions? I was talking to my parents about it and they said they'd help me purchase a new program or piece of hardware to use to read the books. I was looking at book wizard reader by APH and it seems ok, just can't seem to read the text of the jaws book with either jaws itself or one of the MS sapi voices in the text view with the arrow keys or playback keys. Other then that, it seems like a good program. However i was thinking with software, i could probably display the text and audio at the same time but with hardware, i won't be tied down to my pc. I was perhaps thinking of purchasing bookwizard reader and the bookport and getting that authorized for rfbd. That device also plays other file formats which I think would be nice to have, especially audible files since the audible player won't install on my pacmate. Or do i perhaps buy a program and one of the portable cd players from the recording for the blind? I don't know what any of them are like since there don't appear to be demos. I'd like something that's easy to learn so i won't have to struggle with it and i could read the book. I'd like to get this problem solved as quickly as possible so I can participate fully in class reading. If I can't get a refund on the FS reader software, I guess i'll just keep it and if i ever get a laptop, maybe it will work on that. Unfortunately, i don't think rfb would give me a refund on the fs reader authorization cd. Thanks for any help or opinions, it would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact me at any of the messenger screen names below, skype and Yahoo messenger don't work on my universities network but aim and msn do. Sincerely Jay Pellis ---------- Jay Pellis E-mail: jalucard@xxxxxxxxxxxx Aol instant messenger: ftealucard Yahoo messenger: ftealucard Msn messenger, jalucard@xxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: ftealucard