Hello Tina: I think in this context, the term reader and adapter can be used synonymously. I tend to think of a reader as something that attaches to your USB connection and sits next to your desktop like your mouse or any other peripheral and allows compact flash cards to be read by the PC. While the adapter is the PCMCIA version of the same thing which slips into both the side slot of the laptop as well as the side slot of the BrailleNote/VoiceNote and allows for another slot into which a compact flash card can be placed.
hth Jeff Molzow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
