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Hi Anne-Marie (and hello to others - I'm newish too!), I started out three years ago with an old tape recorder I happened to have, and quickly ran (screaming!) to digital. My first digital purchase was an Olympus digital voice recorder VN-240PC, which I think cost in the region of £60, but only has about 90 minutes memory. It served briefly, and was a huge improvement on the cassette recorder for sound quality. I then upgraded to an Olympus WS-300M, same as Eleanor - not as good as Tom's, with fewer hours' memory at high quality sound recording, but it has better quality sound recording than the VN240, and does the job for me. I ALWAYS carry my other digital recorder and run that too, as a back up. Which in 16 interviews so far has been needed (badly) once, when I failed to notice that the battery on the first one had died mid-interview. I did hear an anecdote once about one "old hand" researcher who after long and bitter experience carried no less than six recorders to each interview ... Best wishes, Susan. ----- Original ----- Original Message ----- From: Eleanor Clyne-Kingshott To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:34 AM Subject: Voice recorders Dear Anne-Marie Haigh I am new to this discussion circle, but here's my opinion. I am currently using an Olympus 300M which has slightly less memory that Tom's one, but has excellent sound quality and I get around the memory issue by just putting my audio files straight onto the computer and deleting the ones on the recorder. I think that tape recorders are very stress provoking and I was able to purchase this voice recorder for only $100AUS on EBAY( not sure how many pounds that is??). I also think the ease of being able to save several copies of the audio files is a benefit, as well as being able to listen to your files, if you wish, on your ipod! Kind regards, Eleanor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find your ideal job with SEEK Time for change?