The Pearl Reader looks like a white cane when it is folded up. It is compact
and portable. You just unfold it, and it is positioned like a letter C with
squared off corners when in position. It plugs into the computer via USB, and
uses Open Book that way. Because of the position of the sections of the
"cane", one can place the document beneath the camera and tell Open Book to
take a picture and read it. It has to use Open Book Version 9, which has not
been released yet but will be soon, hopefully! It is about $2,200. by the time
one buys the Pearl plus the Open Book application. Presently, Freedom
Scientific is running a promotion where one can upgrade his present OpenBook
for $150., and purchase the Pearl hardware for about $600. I think that
promotion runs through July 15. It is made for portability
Ernest Quick
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