I'm hoping you folks can help me out with a Christmas gift for my wife. She loves audio books and listens daily during her 2 hour commute. She'd like an MP3 player to use in the car since she can download books for free at our library.

She needs a player that's easy to use while driving. She has a shakey hand due to a nerve disorder so fine motions are hard. She doesn't like to drive and use the cell phone at the same time so I'm concerned about her actually using a player. "pause" and resume from where it left off after being powered down would be critical.

It would have to play thru the car radio / CD / tape head somehow.


Also, I'm wondering if it is possible to just copy the book to a USB memory stick at the library and burn a CD. That would resume and pause. But would probably not have any 'tracks' for easy indexing. What do you think?

Rich in MA

Well, I use a 4GB USB pen drive and I also burn CDs, in your case I would first copy my data from my pen drive to my PCs hard disk then burn my CD from there.

However, as pen drives are designed to as easy to use as floppy or removable disks then theoretically you should be able to burn a CD straight from your pen drive. But I cannot guarantee that this will work because I have never done it before.

Another thing to consider, even though pen drives are as easy to use as floppies, their main purpose is to be able to transport data from one PC to another.

Hope this helps


UK Bob