Method and apparatus for consuming content at a network address

A method of listening to music located at a network address, comprising the steps of:

• connecting a portable memory where the network address for the music is stored to a user interface;
• responding to the connection between the user interface and the portable memory by coupling the music at the network address to the user interface and supplying, the coupled music to a user by operating the user interface;
• upon the user listening to the coupled music to a given point in the coupled music, ceasing to listen to the coupled music;
• causing the user interface to record on the portable memory data indicative of the given point;
• then disconnecting the portable memory from the user interface, and
• subsequently (a) reconnecting the portable memory to a interface that can read from and write to the portable memory, and (b) using the address and the data indicative of the given point stored on the portable memory to (i) connect to the address and (ii) navigate the user interface directly to the given point of the music.

An apparatus for reading text or listening to music, the apparatus comprising an interface device having a port for receiving a portable memory device storing a network address for the text or music, the portable memory device including a RAM, the interface device including a processor for reading the stored address and coupling the interface device to the stored address and for presenting the text or music at the stored address to the user in response to coupling being established between the interface device and the stored address, the interface device being arranged to:

• (a) be responsive to a first input action by the user indicative of the user no longer (i) reading the text or (ii) listening to the music and for deriving a signal indicative of a given point in the text where the user stopped reading the text or a given point in the music where the user stopped listening to the music,
• (b) supply the signal to the RAM,
• (c) read the signal from the RAM in response to the user disconnecting the portable memory device from the interface device and re-connecting the portable memory device to the interface device, and
• (d) then respond to the signal read from the RAM by coupling the interface device to the stored address at the given point in the text or the given point in the music.