I was the not so proud owner of five typelites and now will wait till a "tested" product comes out before I will purchase FS again. The Elba is huge! I got to touch one, and it is the size of a laptop, not really notetaker size at all. Oh, don't forget the Lap Talk as well. Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. -- Vance Havner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gisela Vazquez" <gvazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:08 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Of screenreaders and other talking tech for validation I personally like Freedom Scientific's Braille Lite notetakers. Oh god, I loved my Braillelight2000 but then it died and that hidious Melinium thingy came out and I had to send it back 3 times in as many months. I swore off that company. The braillenote does gives you more functionality though depending on what filetypes you read and work with.