Well now I'm trying a demo of Open Book. I can't find an option in it to adjust scanner brightness, is it possible to do this and to configure finereader at all? Also, I want to try out the AT and T natural voices, but they don't seem to show up in the speech synthesizer selections even though they are installed on my system. I couldn't try them with k1000 either because attempting to change the speech engine would lock up my machine? Any way of getting around this? Pam