Newegg has got the Biostar 6in1 USB 1.1card reader at $9.50 with free shipping + a free ball point pen... (I got this reader and it works flawlessly with Win XP with no drivers required..).. can't beat the price. Link
here
just copied a 228 Mb movie in 4 min 13 secs. to a 512 Mb CF card which works out to about 54 Mb/min