David Cheng writes: >I didn't have a CD player in my car and found the CD size too awkward to >deal with anyway. I love having a CD player in my car. My wife got me one for my birthday three years ago, and it's easily the best gift I ever received. I haven't found the CD size a problem - I can do everything with one hand, and that includes opening the jewel case. What I can't do with one hand is take the wrapping and the ridiculous tape off a new CD, so I postpone that activity until I'm waiting at a red light. Having said this, I'll likely crash into a vehicle tomorrow while removing Bach and inserting Scriabin. Not having had a great day, I'd like to further complain about the tape at the top of CD jewel cases. Not that many years ago, the tape was more user-friendly with a clearly seen long edge that was simple to remove. Now, the long edge is gone, replaced by a short and cheap substitute. Most times when I pull it, just a small fraction of the total tape is gone. Probably someone with a college degree came with this nonsense and got a big fat bonus for it. On the bright side, I've started a review project of Scriabin's Piano Sonata and have been luxuriating the last two days in the 2nd Movement of his early Sonata in E flat minor - fantastic music with a second theme of a rhetorical nature to die for. Along those lines, I picked up the Robert Szidon 3-CD set of Scriabin's Sonatas a few days ago, and you don't want to miss out on it. The cost is about the same as 3 Naxos CDs. I feel better now. Don Satz [log in to unmask]