You are right Anne. The only one who would be able to tell the difference is the poor volunteer who has been driven to the 'bottle' after attempting to fix a few books scanned with Reading Edge. But, I am not really concerned about that: Alcoholic Anonimous tend to do an excellent job at rehabilitation. On the other hand, as Reading Edge is now a fossil, the discussion is moote. G. 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 Ann Parsons Sent by: 05/11/2004 12:07 PM Please respond to bookshare-discuss To bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bookshare-discuss] Re: Better Scans? Hi all, Actually, if the unit still works, it's a viable scanning option, Guido. There are people in this world who would be very glad to get a Reading Edge to scan their materials. Since a computer, a scanner, a good screen reader, and reading software costs in the neighborhood of $3,000, a Reading Edge bought at a much reduced price would be a boone to someone. <smile> There are people who still drive Packard and Edzel cars, and those cars are worth a considerable amount of money. I'll wager that if the copy were cleaned up, Guido, you wouldn't be able to tell if it had been scanned with a Reading Edge or the newest version of Kurzweil or Open Book. All ASCII texts look alike fer as I can tell. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp@xxxxxxxxx WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT