If you have only read, say, picture books to your children, you may not realize this.

That has to be one of the scariest things I've read lately... bowerbird procreating? *shudder* Other than that, I would add one more reason that OCR is more convenient than Voice Recognition ... I can work on a page of typed text at my computer without annoying the crap out of people around me. Can you imagine trying to read a book while sitting at your local Starbucks? Josh