Hi all, I was really close to going for the Yosemity upgrade, largely because I wanted access to iBooks on the Mac with the Alex voice. I also like the idea of copying text from cookbooks into my own recipe files, which is still something of an incentive to going for the upgrade. But in the meantime, I decided to go for ios 8.1 on mi iPad mini and thereby get access to the Alex voice. And I must say, I'm loving it. Some folks had complained that it wasn't as good on i-devices as on the Mac. But I'm not hearing any difference. Given what I've heard about the unnecessary verbosity of mail on Yosemity, I think I'll hold off and see if Apple fixes it with the upgrade that is sure to come out. That and the wifi issues that some are experiencing are kind of a caution light for me. Alex and the new twitterific on ios8 have definitely made that upgrade worth it. Mary > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >