I am so glad so many people spent yesterday debating speaker or not. I am also glad I have the digest. I have been using the bookport and loving it for about two years now I think. I bought it first for text reading capabilities, but I was thrilled about speeding up MP3 files because that's the way I read them. The bookport spends my waking hours in my pocket so I don't want it any bigger. In my other pocket is a walkman and on my head are earphones. I wouldn't have it any other way. It is the best reading device I know of and I wouldn't want it any bigger. As for some of the replies, everybody's opinion is valuable, even over and over again. I will be watching the list and will post if I think I have something interesting to say. Thanks to everybody I had something really long to read this morning. Kurt