<<Listen-up was mentioned as a possible solution. That is indeed a software solution that is free and runs on Linux.>> This I'll have to pursue. And to think my cousin produced a neat utility for producing the simpler daisy books which is in fact the mp3 files, the smil files as offset markers into the mp3s and of course the ncc.html file to start it all off. This was alas, done in DOS under Q.Basic would you believe and he's neither a C or even a Pascal programmer; so porting would get a tad tricky. I forgot basic when I learned Pascal and forgot C through lack of use after leaving Uni' a considerable while ago. Thanks all, GA!