The recorder was designed and advertised as being for personal memos, not live in-class recordings. =20 -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Scarlet Wombat Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:59 AM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Recording quality One of the features I was looking forward to with the BP was the digital voice recorder. I am very disappointed. The quality is third rate. I=20 need to record classes and the quality is not of sufficient quality to=20 understand the instructor if he is more than three feet from the=20 microphone. Is there any way to attach an external mike? I cannot figure=20 a way, but thought I would ask before I give up trying to make recordings. Dan=20