which MP3 player for reading books/book mark?

sunflowersuffolk

Help needed please - never had an MP3 player, need something simple but not too expensive, just to listen to reading books sometimes for half hour at a time!

First I saw Philips GoGear Raga 8GB MP3 Player. £34.99 good reviews, quite tough and long bettery life but not compatible with audio books, then saw Phillips Spark was, but seemed cheap and plasticky.

I want something easy to operate and to bookmark.

Does anyone have any recommendations as I'm going mad trying to find something.

Thanks

mr_fishbulb

What type of audio books?

I have a sansa clip - great player. From website -

• Plays MP3, WMA, secure WMA and Audible audio file formats

fiddiwebb

Yep, I can recommend the Sasa Clip+ as well.

According to the specs it will play............

Supports MP3, WMA, secure WMA, Audible, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, plus audio books and podcasts

sunflowersuffolk

I've never used audio books but would like to in future,not sure where best to get them. Also would like to listen to BBC podcasts from radio at times.

sunflowersuffolk

is it Sandisk 8GB Sansa Clip MP3 Player with Radio you suggest

fiddiwebb

sunflowersuffolk wrote: »

is it Sandisk 8GB Sansa Clip MP3 Player with Radio you suggest

I have the Sandisk 8GB Sansa clip+, you can add more memory using a memory card, I believe you can add another 16GB using Sandisks own brand but I have been told to can add a 32Gb card.

I bought my clip+ from Amazon for £44, it is quite small about the size of a matchbox, sound is excellent, radio is okay as well.

If you are passing any of the major electrical dealers pop in and see if they have one to have a look at.

This is a good site for BBC radio plays which I use....

http://www.radioarchive.cc/

mr_fishbulb

fiddiwebb wrote: »

I bought my clip+ from Amazon for £44, it is quite small about the size of a matchbox, sound is excellent, radio is okay as well.

You can make the radio reception a lot better by changing it from stereo to mono

fiddiwebb

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

You can make the radio reception a lot better by changing it from stereo to mono

Thanks for the tip fishbulb :T

When I first got the clip+ I was slightly dissapointed that it sounded so quite but found a loudness setting in the menu that sorted that.

Dreamnine

The Clip/+ is easily the best choice for audiobooks - inexpensive and with useful features.

sunflowersuffolk

Thanks all for your advice. I got the Sandisk sansa clip 8GB in Currys today for £44.99 and my other half has just helped me transfer some CDs I had, by using Windows Media - it was more complcated than we'd hoped, to set up.

I may download the full manual to see how it works as I'm not technically minded! Want to add podcasts next.

It is tiny, must get a little case for it, and thanks for the tip re radio, and the archive site which I'll use. Looking forward to using it now.

Thanks again all

sunflowersuffolk

Couple of queries please

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

You can make the radio reception a lot better by changing it from stereo to mono

Please, How do you do this? I pressed settings radio then radio options, and it gave

delete all presets
FM Region USA
or
FM Mode Stereo

which is it, or am I in wrong place?

sorry to be so thick!

Also I put everything in songs
how do I get them in order or do a playlist? There are items already on there, I want to see My favourites first instead of scrolling down for them.

If I go back into Media Player and alter names, move them around etc, do I then have to wipe everything from the sansa clip and re enter it all on revised basis?

thanks again