Best of luck in your ride, Hopper8r. I ended up ordering a hardback copy from Barnes and Noble online and a paperback copy form Book Depository. One of them should be here by Thursday, I can power through over the weekend and finally start looking at, and contributing, to other threads besides this one. I feel like I'm VERY late to the party here...hopefully the discussion will be on going for a while...so much to read and talk about!