Jamie: Not defending NLS, but there are a couple of considerations: 1. NLS's reader base has a large number of elderly people (I guess that includes me) and many of them would have problem adapting to computers. 2. Probably the most important, NLS supplies the CD player to a large number of there members, it is costly to replace all of this equipment and now days they just don't get the budget from the federal government, to do the work. HTH, George R. Marshall geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: NLS vs. Bookshare I forgot to say I'm amazed that in this day and age NLS would concentrate on books on cassette. Cd players have been "in" for such a long time and that format of music is so easily converted to ipod style players that it would seem that cassettes wouldn't have much popularity. Jamie in Michigan Currently reading: Ceremony in Death - J.D. Robb