Hi All

I'm at *TOTAL* beginner stage for Hiragana, I've been using Romaji so far 
but want to move away from that as it's introducing silly mistakes (for 
instance I was calling it Romanji Doh!)

Book:
I just want a book I can use when I'm away from the computer that's small 
enough to fit in my pocket to read on the bus etc. Mainly I intend to be 
learning via software on the computer, but want something to keep my mind 
ticking the rest of the time that I can dip in and out of. Looking to spend 
about five to ten quid or so (I'm in the UK)

Software:
well more configuration than recommendation really. I've got quite a few 
teaching apps that are great, the problem is with email, newsgroups, web 
etc. I keep my font size as small as possible to avoid taking up too much 
screen space, this is fine for English but a bit crap for the squiggles I 
am not used to that make up Japanese. Is there any way to have English at 
it's current size and Japanese much larger until I'm better at recognizing 
the characters? I'm on XP by the way.

Suggestions (please)?

-J