The reason that I purchased Book Port instead of another device such as Book Courier, is because I wanted to be able to read RFB&D books as well as electronic ones. I rarely read NLS books because it is easier for me to download Bookshare books and read them either via Kurzweil or with Book Port. As I understand it, Book Port is the only device that is able to read RFB&D books as well as electronic ones, and therefore, I hope that APH will manufacture Book Port II in the near future like they promised. I would hate to see this wonderful device no longer in existence. Barbara Yerba Bruja <yerbabruja@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Perhaps no one missed it. I think people are trying to figure out what other alternatives they can have with bookport or whatever, because there's a difference between shelling out $395 for a bookport and $1,395 for a braille plus, in spite of how convenient, versatile and impressive the latter is. Don't get me wrong. I love both. But I can see why people would be looking for options involving cost below those of the braille plus or icon. What I would be interested to know is if APH is at any point interested in developing pc based software capable of reading those nls books. Might be a less costly alternative, given that there wouldn't be hardware involved. Not as portable as the bookport or braille plus but... Marta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtis Delzer" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:24 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: future of bookport > you all missed it! Didn't Pam say that another Braille device will soon > support the NLS format? > > Curtis Delzer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Fiorello" > To: "bookport" > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:00 AM > Subject: [bookport] future of bookport > > > Hi; > While I'm not certain if we can really know about any future releases or > not, bookport customers are "jumping ship" and going to players that will > work with nls. As other players are approved more folks may choose to > seriously look at them. Once the bulk of the market has gone elsewhere it > might be to little to late to come out with a new and improved bookport. > At > the moment, however, I enjoying the good old outdated bookport. > Richard > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1189 - Release Date: > 12/18/2007 9:40 PM > >