See if you can buy it, because they aren't being made, supported, or distributed anymore. The right tool for the right situation. I loved my bookport and I love my stream. I use the compression of pre-recorded audio, and it knocks 40 per cent off my reading time. I agree about the high speed mumbling with high quality speech. I think I will use text to audio, and turn text in to mp3files; with the voices I want.