Dear volunteers: Recently I received the demo CD for Kurzweil 3000 the one for dyslexics though I requested the K1000 but anyway; I installed it to my computer which is an AMD Athlon 1.0 Gb 128 MB RAM OS Windows XP 2002 SP1 and it ran beautifully but it does crash unexpectedly. First it froze my scanner and the IBM Viavoice goes silent after a while. Also I think the program needs a revamping in its OCR engine Fine Reader or Expervision, the two of them recognizes poorly the text and when you try to listen what is it reading you get the errors that the OCR has made from recognition of the text. Also it needs improvements in the editing part and a feature to allow to choose between an English dictionary or Spanish or whatever language is your book about. Also I have a trick I've done today to get rid of the book middle shadows, I put a white piece of paper in the scanner that covers the pages inline to the cover and it worked beautifully but you need to take a little more time to scan carefully, i.e. to hold the book flat and put pieces of tape to the piece of paper to avoid moving it and of make sure you don't cover the text with it. Very truly yours Dilsia A. Martinez Rivera Villalba PR The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again. -- Alan Patton, Cry the Beloved Country, Scribner Paperback Fiction The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. -- Arch Ward, Promoter and sports editor Better twice measured than once wrong. -- Danish Proverb