Actually, I think the solution would almost work. I believe the sleep timer can be set to various increments, like 0 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes or 60 minutes. If it were changed to allow you to enter an arbitrary number of minutes, that might make it workable. Actually, as I think about it, I'd suggest this change, along with a new menu item, "sleep timer is absolute timer = yes, or no", and you'd have the feature you want. If the sleep timer is absolute, then it would time out regardless of how many topics you switch to during a reading session. And, it keeps the number of timers, alarms, and clock settings to a minimum, which, to my mind, reduces confusion about which is which. -Brian