OOPS! sorry about the previous message. I was trying to email from MS-word 97. I didn't realize it would email as an attachment only. Anyway here is what I wrote. I will take a shot at your questions. 1. I find K-1000 to be as responsive as open book I did get a demo of the program and ran it on a Windows-98 machine with a 500-MHZ processer and 64-megs of RAM. I now have a faster windows XP machine and both ran Kurzweil. 2. K-1000 is a more accurate scanner. I am a bookshare user and the book Best Loved Poems of the American People which I sent to Bookshare was scanned and edited entirely using a K1000 demo. I have now upgraded to the full version, V-10.5 and awake my CD of V-11 to come. Since I bought K-1000 last June it should be sent to me. 3. Yes Kurzweil and openbook can co-exist on the same machine. When I got my new computer, I put K-1000 on it first and then, later, put openbook on the machine. I did have some trouble getting gopen book to use the epsen scanner, but as I don't use O.B. for scanning anyway that didn't trouble me. Sincerely Yours: Duane Iverson