Jean, Many people might find this gadget useful. Can you please tell us the make and it's exact description. Many thanks Peter -- Peter Amsden Argyll, Scotland > From: Jeanne Bunting <firgrove@compuserve.com> > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:53:11 -0400 > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > I have now bought a 'belt and braces' device which is much simpler for > transferring pictures. It is a casing, with slots for all the popular > cards, that contains a standard laptop hard drive. It has a rechargable > battery and is the ideal way of transferring and storing images, especially > if you haven't got a laptop available. Mine has an 80Gb drive and will > hold thousands of pictures. On that trip to Burnley I took nearly 1000 > pictures which would have filled several cards. It saves you having to > have several spare cards. Incidentally it is only slightly larger than an > audio cassette case, but a good bit heavier! It cost £95. I bought it at > a Computer Fair and it comes complete with charger and USB cable so you can > connect it to your computer.