You can also copy multiple books to a cartridge. Yes, the battery life is incredible. I like using a cartridge over the flash drive. The cartridge is much easier to get out of the player. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:05 AM Subject: nls player > The NLS has earned the highest praise and support that we can give them > with > the new digital players! I got mine Thursday night, and with help, I have > discovered a few fascinating things. > 1. If you load multiple books on a travel drive, you can open the library > by holding down the play button for 3 seconds. Then the right and left > arrows go through the books. > 2. Kingston travel drives are recommended, but I had an 8 GB verbatim > store > and go here, it works fine. Sorry if I spelled that wrong. > 2. You have to be careful with this, thin fingers help. The cartridges > connect to the machine via a standard USB port at the back of the cassette > well. To avoid sticking a drive out the side of the machine, plug the > drive > in to the port inside the well. Tiny drives are not recommended, unless > you > have really thin fingers. The battery doesn't report more than 29 hours > of > life, but I hear it actually runs the machine for 35 hours. > You may have to have the latest firmware for all of this to work, Mine > says > 2.1.4, I don't know how to get or update the machine yet. If you have the > stream companion software, you can use it to transfer downloaded books to > the travel drive. My thanks to everybody who has been so helpful in > answering my many questions. > > > H T Kaufman MSW LCSW > Adaptive Technology Instructor