I think that acording to your needs you will be much better of with the Kurzweil 1000. Certainly there is no demo to download but you may try to download a demo of OpenBook which in many respects is similar to K1000. you may download it from the freedom scientific web page. It is a larg download. Regarding the KNFB reader I never could use it to read menues and small receips. It actually did better reading regular letter size papers. But this is my impression. The problem with the Eyepal is that you cannot save large documents, and it is not that portable. You can get a netbook and a small scanner and you will be better of. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Sweeney To: infotech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: [infotech] The Eyepal V The KNFB Reader Hi all, Would I be right in my gleaning that The KNFB Reader is really for small document reading such as receipts, menus and the like whilst the Eyepal Solo is good forr reading books? I feel now that it is a reading device for scanning/reading books that I'm after! Conventional scanners are not what I'm after now as I'd have to hack many's a great classic and suchlike to bits to scan their rich pages! I have the Kurzweil for general documents, letters and so on. Something tells me too that the picture resolution from those above named products using a camera would be better. Tony