They do have an apparently undocumented limit.  They recommend no larger 
than a 2Gb drive I think, and we put 20 books on an 8Gig drive and my wife 
told me it only recognized the first four.

You can get a narrower usb drive in the front of the player, where the 
cartridge normally goes, it is the same type of USB connection.  YOu just 
have to maneuver it a bit.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player


> Steve,
>
> I'm not aware of any limit as to the number of books the player will
> recognize as long as there's space available on the medium.  Depending on
> the size of the book, I get seven or eight books onto a 1GB cartridge, 
> which
> seems like enough since I can only read one book at a time.  I don't like
> the idea of the USB thumb drive sticking out of the side of the machine, 
> so
> I prefer the cartridges for that reason.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 15:04
> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>
>
>>I thought they were selling the cartridges, but I just use a regular USB
>> thumb drive.
>>
>> It appears as though the player won't recognize more than a few books on
>> the
>> USB drive, so a small one like 2GB would be plenty.  You can get those 
>> for
>> probably $15 or less on line from places like Newegg or Amazon.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>
>>
>>> True, but I don't think you can get the cable from APH.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 14:24
>>> Subject: Re: off topic: external disk drive and nls player
>>>
>>>
>>>>I made an error in my first post.  The drive is a usb hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> How many books can you store on a cartridge?  Looks like APH's
>>>> cartridges
>>>> are less expensive than Adaptive Technologies and they have more space.
>>>>
>>>> Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
>>>>
>>