Oh, Jake, I feel your pain! *grin* I love Kurzweil and can only imagine what you're having to endure! *smile* Seriously, though, you're not the first one I've heard talk about OpenBook in this way and it is a shame they won't improve their product, but then, that just means more people in favor of Kurzweil, huh? Yeah! *smile* Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 Yahoo: julienstarsky ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Brownell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:51 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Wonders of Kurzweil Please stop the onslaught! I've wanted K1K since last year when I was working to get new software from the state. Instead of listening to me however they purchased OpenBook. Currently I'm attempting to get them to let me trade in my OB for a copy of Kurzweil. OpenBooks scans aren't actually bad, but that shouldn't be surprising since the main engine is Fine Reader. It lacks greatly in updates and in *many* features that Kurzweil has, some small, some big. Some of them I would think would be easy to code, but Freedom Scientific seems to be content to chug along with what the program has in place already. For goodness sakes they could update the Microsoft Common Dialogue controls so the Open, Save, etc. dialogues work fully in a Windows XP environment. So just so you know everytime someone mentions a K1K feature I'm drueling in envy. Cheers! Jake