Jeb-NY
Recycles dryer sheets
Other sources of free material for your iPod/MP3 player are podcast books. There are hundreds of authors doing serial releases of their books doing weekly chapters, some are very good. Also weekly short stories are being podcasts by others so you can finish it on e sitting. I picked up a lot of music off internet radio stations, with the right software you can setup to record programs at specific times. Some stations broadcast as individual MP3 files with all the MP3 extra info like titles and artist. Lots of Old Time Radio available online if you like old radio programs.
I had been using my PDA as an MP3 players and finally bought a refurbished previous generation nano this past Summer since the batteries in the PDA was only good for a few hours and the nano could do around 8 (plus back then I used the PDA as a GPS also). I bought it for listening to books/podcasts while walking and for trips and camping. The car has a jack to plug it into the audio system, the truck I use either a cassette adapter or FM converter, depends on where we are traveling and how far. The FM converters can be a pain on a long trip where the local strong stations keep changing.
With the iTunes interface it is easy to change programing, so the need to carry the world all at the same time isn't as much of a problem. A wanted to load a 13 hour pod novel the other day and didn't have enough room since I went cheap and bought a 4GB unit. Just plugged it into the computer unchecked one of the playlists, checked the podbook and clicked the sync button. In no time I was ready to go with my podbook. One feature that I discovered, was it syncs play info also. I was listening to this book while doing my morning walk and had it setup with a smart folder in iTunes so it only had chapters that I hadn't listen to. I was also listening on the computer while doing other things. I got back from walking, plugged it in and it auto synced removing the files I had listened to from the nano and iTunes smart folder. When I went to iTunes expecting to have to find where I left off and clicked on the chapter I had been listening to, it started up where the nano left off. Did this all last week. When I was finished listening on the computer I would click sync and the nano was ready for the next day.
Jeb
I had been using my PDA as an MP3 players and finally bought a refurbished previous generation nano this past Summer since the batteries in the PDA was only good for a few hours and the nano could do around 8 (plus back then I used the PDA as a GPS also). I bought it for listening to books/podcasts while walking and for trips and camping. The car has a jack to plug it into the audio system, the truck I use either a cassette adapter or FM converter, depends on where we are traveling and how far. The FM converters can be a pain on a long trip where the local strong stations keep changing.
With the iTunes interface it is easy to change programing, so the need to carry the world all at the same time isn't as much of a problem. A wanted to load a 13 hour pod novel the other day and didn't have enough room since I went cheap and bought a 4GB unit. Just plugged it into the computer unchecked one of the playlists, checked the podbook and clicked the sync button. In no time I was ready to go with my podbook. One feature that I discovered, was it syncs play info also. I was listening to this book while doing my morning walk and had it setup with a smart folder in iTunes so it only had chapters that I hadn't listen to. I was also listening on the computer while doing other things. I got back from walking, plugged it in and it auto synced removing the files I had listened to from the nano and iTunes smart folder. When I went to iTunes expecting to have to find where I left off and clicked on the chapter I had been listening to, it started up where the nano left off. Did this all last week. When I was finished listening on the computer I would click sync and the nano was ready for the next day.
Jeb
