Phil, welcome back. I think the Edirol R09 should be the ticket for you here. Its down in price now to around ?250.00. A lot of retailers selling it including Studiospares, Dolphin Audio and inquitaudio, to name a few. Be interesting to see if anyone else comes up with alternatives to the R09. Cheers, From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of phil stephenson Hi All, Been off list for quite a while now so lost touch a bit with what's happening, good to be back and see the list is as active as ever! After some suggestions for a hardware mp3 player / recorder that I can use to give to my personal reader to record audio onto and then for me to quickly & easily dump onto my hard drive for storage & playing back on my bookcourier / pc. It doesn't necessarily have to be fully accessible for me as it will be used by a sighted person but it must be easily syncable with my pcc and be able to record up to record / store up to 5 hrs worth of mp3 at a time. I already have a plexter ptr2 which is great but I don't want to give this to my reader to take away and leave me without the rest of the time. I do have an old Olympus dm1 recorder but I've never found it easy to sync and get files off and if my memory servies me right (which is no guarantee!) it tends to default to recording in WAV format. Anyway your suggestions greatly appreciated. ATb, Phil