Irwin, I totally agree with you, and that's why I haven't taken the plunge yet into getting with the NLS pilot program till this issue is resolved. Yes, I've seen the new and improved Victor Streams, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to purchase a second machine in order to hear computerized NLS books. I know there's been a lot of comment on the discussion list about this issue, and I, too, hope it can be resolved. I do, however, wonder if part of the problem is with the NLS formatting. Is that formatting just in the development stage, and is NLS assuming that everyone interested in reading digital books is going with the Humanware product? That doesn't sound fair to me either, and I gather one cannot just download digital NLS books on computer. Hopefully it's a situation where I'm just confused and don't have all of the information. But, please, a comment from someone in the know at Levelstar and or APH would be greatly appreciated. Linda Gehres