[nabs-l] KNFB Reader

[Jorge Paez]

Hi all.
I'm now starting highschool this fall in NYC, and I'm considering several things to get to be ready for school. I have different ideas, depending on what I noticed, but one of things I realized is that there are times, specially towards the start of the year, but it still happens that the Science or Social Studies teacher is telling us to read out of certain books and we don't have them or its not scanned yet, but we have to do the classwork for that day.
Do you think the KNFB READER would be a good idea to get?

The other thing too is that when we go places--restaurants and the like, the menus have to be read to me. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against having things read to me when its absolutely needed, but the thing is, I'm always thinking - what if I'm by myself? Or with friends? With my parents its fine, and I'm sure my friends would never say anything, but if I can do this by myself why not?

What do you guys think? Is it worth saving up for a KNFB mobile device?

(getting the cell version is would force our family plan out the window cause we'd have to switch companies)

Any feedback is appreciated.


Thanks.

Jorge