Many of your friends negative comments are easily taken care of with the scripts from Brian Hartgen, which make it very simple to check battery status, erase and copy files, etc. It's true that the Zen Stone won't play text files, but name a pure MP3 player that will. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mohit Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:51 AM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Reading Audio Files from the Public Library Hi shane, I have a friend using this, He told me it is not grate, U can not read text, can not arayz stuf, and u can not chek the battry, most importint it has no speech, rock box wont work whit it, and it will work olny for 600 minit's, mohit.