Off-Topic: Daisy Readers

[Trevor Astrope]

Can anyone recommend a good daisy reader? I've checked out the Victor 
Classic+ locally, and it seems like a nice machine, but I really like the 
features of the AFB BookPort that has text to speech built-in. I asked AFB 
if it would work with linux and they said that you need to use the windows 
software in order for it to read the files. Does anyone know what the 
software is doing? Does it just convert the text file to the daisy format? 
If you could prepare your files in the daisy format on your linux machine 
before transfering the files, would they work? And if so, is there any 
software available for linux that converts text to the daisy format?

Any info or experiences with the daisy readers out there is appreciated.

Thanks,

Trevor