You need an inverter. This lets you hook your power adapter to a car lighter plug. You should be able to find one (I'd recommend 100watts or greater) for well under $50. On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:09:16 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, everyone. Do any of you who validate with a laptop have any gadgets >you use for extending battery power during a very long road trip? Have >you seen some sort of adapter that lets a laptop hook up to the >cigarette lighter in a car to extend the battery life of the laptop? I'm >going to be riding along for 10 hours each way, and I'd like to use that >time productively. I've found that my laptop battery lasts about 2 hours >or so, depending on what I'm doing. That would mean I'd have 8 hours of >time each way where I'm not doing much. I can read with my Book Port, of >course, but I'd rather validate for Bookshare if I'm going to be reading >anyway. I have my five books out for validation, and I have about 120 >books I could prevalidate to get ready to submit to Bookshare. I can get >a lot done with 20 hours of sitting time. So if you have any tips for >working with a laptop on the road, will you please share them? You'll >have my gratitude and will get to enjoy some new books when I get back. >(smile) To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.