Hi David, I think I can answer your question very well. If your setup like myself, I use computers with External devices, such as it would just happen to be the laptop I use to interface my Bookport, which uses an external CD drive. Using the bookport interface software, I was able to access the external CD drive just as if it were built into the computer itself, I've even been able to pass book files from my external Zip drive attached to my laptop. I myself have probably over 2 thousand books, which doesn't include the books they include on the CD that comes with the bookport, and because I use more than one computer to read books, I usually store most of these book files on CD's or Zip disks. In fact using the Bookport interface software, I was able to access and copy files to the Bookport from other computers through my network I have setup. I hope this answers your question Jim Caldwell From: "David Bennett" < david382@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bookport] Re: Micro drives Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:11:50 -0600 I think the original question might have been intended in a different manner than has been interpreted, and this is something I, too have wanted to know. If I'm misinterpreting the question, accept my apologies, but if anyone can answer mine, please do. If you connect any sort of external drive to your computer and populate it with prospective Book Port files and folders, can they be accessed in the usual way using Windows Explorer or the Book Port software? I've wondered this for some time and have considered acquiring some sort of peripheral memory. I have four or five gigs of text and BRF files and twice that amount of audible stuff, and would dearly love to move this to an external source. Moving it to CD's is ok, and I have zipped copies of most things on CD's, but many of my folders are too large to be accommodated by a CD in an unzipped format. I'm supposing that any type of drive can be accessed by Book Port, external or otherwise, but if anybody knows for sure, please let me know.