[Will]

Or, you could use what has become my new favorite toy. Get an iPod, then you have a lot of music in your pocket all the time, and a few to several gigs of data storage for good measure. Any (windows) PC, and you just plug it in, wait a few seconds for the drive to be recognized, and you're off! Cheaper than your option, with 40GB for $399US compared to 1.25GB for $700CDN.

But personally, I would go with SJ's suggestion. Then not only will you have portable SEIV, but you don't even need to find a computer, only an outlet to charge up every once in a while. Find someone ditching their old laptop, make sure it's one you can at least still order batteries for. Like my mom's old (OLD... as in, bought in 1996, one of the first shipped with Win95) laptop, a Toshiba. I think they stopped making that model of battery in 1999, then Toshiba sold their battery division in 2000... so tough luck getting a replacement for that. Now, even with the most stringent of power-saving measures, the thing won't Last unplugged from the wall for more than 20 minutes. Good thing no one really uses it anymore.

USB memory stick is another way to go. Quick search on newegg shows a 1GB flash USB drive at a bit under $100US, but shipping and currency exchange would bump up the price quite a bit more. Perhaps an Online Canadian store will have a better deal.