Hi Pete: That's news! Although they were manufactured by the sane company, the Book Port and Book Courier were and are 2 separate products. APH designed the Book Port and Springer manufactured it for us. As already stated many times on this list, there won't be a Book Port 2 because of problems with the manufacturer. Therefore, APH is now developing another product. Thanks for the interesting news! Pamela -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Torpey Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:10 AM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] New Version of Bookport? I see that Springer Design has recently introduced the new Book Courier called the Book Courier Braille. Looks like all of the features that were slated to be in the Bookport II. Does this mean that there is still a chance to see a new bookport or does this device already have everything in it that the Bookport was to have? By the way, in the documentation of the Book Courier Braille (which includes the braille note taking capability of the Bookport), I did not see any mention of: - Being able to read NLS books - Being able to read DRM protected files (like those that can now be directly downloaded from RFB&D as well as many public libraries) I was a bit disappointed to see that they decided to go with the old Doubletalk speech synthesizer rather than one of the newer and more natural sounding synthesizers like people are now enjoying on the Victor Reader Stream. -- pete