There are a lot of linux users using bookports all the time. You don't have the fancy interface to do the indexing of the text files but plain text files stored into the notes directory on the bookport work pretty well. You don't have options like setting multiple bookmarks and the less granular movements such as by sentence or paragraph aren't there but the basic move by line, word and character work just fine. You can either mount the bookport using the usb cable or as many of us do just slip a compact flash into a card reader and read and write directly to the card and then slip it back into the bookport. If you want to emulate some of the higher order movement functions you can manipulate the text file before moving it to place each sentence as a line of it's own which is what the bookport software on a windows box does. If you get the later more recent beta software upgrades you get very good mp3 file movement without the windows transfer software. Reading text files which is what I do most of the time I get over 55 hours on a single set of bateries. In my opinion that is pretty bloody good. I've heard mp3 users get about 20 although I almost never use it with mp3 files. I never go anywhere without my bookport and have read probably over ten thousand pages since getting it. I find I feel lost if I'm caught out somewhere without it anymore I depend on it so much. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list