thanks for your reply melody, rob. yes its a great device. I am still trying to get around the very basics. I have it goinmg now pretty good and have memorised a lot of the commands tell me..it seems when i load my mp3 files it sometimes goes 'spakers' wen i try and play them..I assume it is because of the file lenght of the mp3's which are someting lijke this.... 01_hey_jude_beatles_best_hits.mp3 I am renameing the ones for the bookport and it appears to work.. have a gud day/night heinz