I am pretty sure that's right. You gotta pay, and the cheapest one I've seen from RFB&D is $199, unless you get some kind of promotion. If you get your own CD player - I think it has to play MP3's, but you better check that - you can send it to them and they modify it so that it can play their books. That will cost you only $10. That might be a better deal than buying one of their players, but I don't know if you would lose any nice features that theirs might have that an ordinary player wouldn't. I'm holding out for a better price before I buy one from them. I can get cassettes until next June, and I will wait and see what kind of deals come along between now and then. ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Cortada To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:24 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: RFBD Is there any free or affordable reader for RFBD books? The old tape players came from NLS and there wasn't a charge. But, now RFBD is only doing CDs. However, there doesn't seem to be a free CD player for eligible students. Is this right? Monica in Maryland