In a message dated 1/12/2006 12:15:48 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, robsuth@robsuth.plus.com writes: enquiries as far as I could, but found no product among the DVD portable readers that would deal with text, nor was any of the manufacturers interested in producing one. Apart from the French reader Cybook (which I think is too expensive for the task and market although otherwise for the most part ideal) there seems still to be no special ebook reading device available in UK or the EU generally: laptops are still too big and heavy, and PDAs still have far too small a screen My enquiries confirmed my strong impression that there are protectionist interests holding this back, presumably in the interests of proprietary issues of ebooks. I suggest you go to eBookWise and FictionWise. Although they do not deal with DVD portable readers, they are seeking input into what people need and want, and would be very glad to hear from you. My husband, two of my daughters, several of my friends, and I all use the eBookWise reader which you can find for sale for about $100 at eBookWise.com. By using extra memory cards, you can build immense libraries, or you can use only the memory built into the device and build an immense library on your computer, realizing that you'll have to download often. I have six memory cards and would like to have about sixty more, but they aren't free. Anne Wingate