I bet that if you used th Unpack utility, smile from Bookshare that at least part of your work would be done, smile. But thank you for the review of Book Wizard. Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Alumni Association Board www.guidedogs.com Dog ownership is like a rainbow. Puppies are the joy at one end. Old dogs are the treasure at the other. Carolyn Alexander ----- Original Message ----- From: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:58 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on book wizard. I recently bought book wizard. I need to read some RFB and D books so I had to chose a digital reader somewhere. Also, when I get my bible project going. I will need a daisy talking book producer and will probably go with Book Wizard. I already use APH's studio recorder program. Anyway I proved to my own satisfaction that book wizard will read bookshare books. Now I do not have the bookshare unpack tool. I have Kurzweil version 11 which does just fine with bookshare books so I haven't kneaded the bookshare unpacker. I went to my kurzweil download file and took one of the bookshare books there that I had already opened with Kurzweil. I renamed the book from mybook.bks to mybook.zip. I found I was able to open the book using windows XP and windows explorer. I copied the files that resulted in to another directory and was able to click on the *.opf file with book wizard. I could then read the book. Things didn't work out perfectly, but that may be because I am inexperienced with book wizard and don't know how to navigate very well yet. Well, I said to myself, if Windows XP opens a zip file?. . . So I went to the sight, downloaded The Dark Demensions by A. Bertrum Chandlar renamed the file "dark.zip" and tried unzipping this with Windows. NOTHING DOING!! I renamed the file dark.bks, opened it with Kurzweil. Kurzweil asked me for my password. After doing this I closed the book, renamed the file back to dark.zip, then had no trouble unzipping the files in to another directory. Then book wizard would read the book. Moral of the story? Bookshare files are trickier then I am. Do I recommend book wizard? If you don't need to read RFB and D books and you got Kurzweil or Openbook stick with them. Book Wizard isn't worth the extra money. You do however get one of the A T and T Natural Voices, Mike, with the CD.. I note that book wizard works with my Scansoft Voices from JAWS and my Voiceware voices from Kurzweil but doesn't see Eloquence at all. I have two versions one from Kurzweil and one from Jaws on my system. Sincerely Yours: Duane Iverson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/713 - Release Date: 3/7/2007 9:24 AM To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.