Hi, Kasondra. I know how you feel! Sometimes, when I think about it, it still amazes me what technology has done for those of us who love to read. I, too, have a laptop and have lots of books burned onto CD. I have more to do but haven't done it yet...and if I don't soon, it'll be my luck my computer will crash and I'll lose them all! *smile* Anyway, most of my reading is done on the Braille Lite with flash cards, but it is indeed wonderful. I've only had a scanner for about four years now...and have been using the same Epson 1650 for the entire time until it finally started giving up. Not too bad, I wouldn't guess, considering how many textbooks I've had to scan with that thing! Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kasondra payne" <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:28 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Jeanette Oke Books and other books I agree with everything that you all have said. This is a relatively new experience for me. I got a few Braille books when I was a kid. The few books I got, I still have. They are on bookshelves in my home office. Then I went to getting books from libraries, but I could never keep them for long. When I was in college I would scan books and put them on disk, but disks don't hold much. The scanning quality has improved dramatically over the years. I also bought lot of my favorite books on audio CD's. Now I can take my laptop around, and I have literally hundreds of books that I can read anywhere. What a miracle! The other day, my husband and I were discussing the new Harry Potter book. We realized that thanks to Bookshare, we don't have to buy the an audio copy for me. All we need is the print copy for him. That's terrific! Thank you! Kasondra Payne