As long as your bookport works, enjoy it and what it does. When thhe bookport was released, it was a unique component to the adaptive technology market. Now with mp3 players, victor readers, pda's, icons, $500 lap tops, Free screen readers, and more things than that; what can a bookport II do that isn't already being done by compedators who don't have to share their resources with a wide range of demands in areas like teaching making accessible books, advocacy, etc. Personally with the new options, nls free reading machines for their books in the future, I can't think of a need for a bookport II.
Sorry about the wording here. Adaptive technology isn't free. Much research and developement goes into a very small market. If microsoft makes a dollar on every purchase of office, with ten million sales it makes ten million dollars. Everything becomes rapidly obsileete. That is, if you insist on having the newest fastest most versitile and smallest thing. Your piece of equipment will continue to work as good as new as long as you are content to use it as it was meant to be used.
