Sharon, I suspect you will not find studying with the BookPort terribly natural, at least in the beginning. Our neuro-pathways are not cast in stone, but are dynamic. Yet it takes time to change them, and in some cases they no longer change at all. It's one of those cases where the answer is. . . it depends! Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Sharon" <sharon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 05/17/2004 04:02 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille That's fascinating about braille and print reading being similar neurologically. I do know that when I'm cramming for finals, I absolutely must have my notes in braille, even if I read the book auditorily. Now that I have bookport, it will be interesting to see if the ability to read word by word and sentence by sentence will change that, but I doubt it. Sharon