Hi Tony, Yes, I'm aware of the K1000's ability to recognize images, with varying degrees of success, naturally, depending on image quality, page layout etc. Paying for images and then praying I could get decent text out of them is hardly equal to paying for images and looking at them and reading them, however. Regarding the old time radio books, you've just provided great arguments for why that author you spoke of should donate his work to Bookshare. <smile> And as for K1000 crashing, have you contacted tech support and tried working through the problem? Its certainly not normal behavior for K1000 to crash, so that you couldn't get all the way through a book. Mary