There are some very nice JBL portable speakers costing $80 on Amazon They run on 4 aaa batteries don't take much space at all -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Tanner Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:45 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: external speakers I found a set of small battery powered stereo speakers at RadioShack that fold up and are very portable, and they have a pretty good sound to them too, with a vynal carrying case for $29.99. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Allen" <wd8ldy@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:11 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: external speakers : What would be a good external speaker to use with the book port? : : Any that you can find so long as you like the sound and it terminates in a : 3.5 mm plug. Either the mono or stereo ImaSpeaker will work fine. : : If you have a cassette player distributed by the Library of Congress or : other talking book agency, you can run a patch cable between the book port : and the Auxiliary input of the cassette player allowing the cassette player : to provide the external speaker for the book port. This is very : satisfactory. : : Cheers, : Dave : :