MP3 Player

jcb208

Can anyone reccomend an mp3 player for a friend who has very poor site and just wants it to play audio books.dont mind paying about £80.We tried a really cheap one from aldi £8.99 does the job but when you turn it off it never starts play back from the previous position so its a pain to get the book back to where you were.So main criteria is to be able to start playback from where you left off and if screen which easy to read.

m5rcc

Try and find a used Sony mp3 usb pen-drive-esque player or an older Panasonic SV-SD model for under a tenner

superjaggybunnet

A kindle will read books to you.

ada1988

I support sony Mp3,too.they are in low price and good quality.

Dave_C_2

The feature you are looking for is auto-resume.
Even better is a player with bookmarking.
I think the Sansa clip and the clip+ will do both

Auto resume = power off player and it starts exactly where you left off in mid-track. Some players don't do this and resume at the start of the track, which is no good for audio books
Bookmark = bookmark a particular point of a song or track and it will set a bookmark. Listen to something else. You can pick up the bookmark later. Normally you can set multiple bookmarks

Dave

Avoriaz

Ebay has plenty of suitable mp3 players at well under £80.

You could probably get a decent model for under £10 if you don't mind secondhand.

Lifeforms

Just to throw a spanner into the works, but with poor sight, has your friend said anything about the display? It's great finding a suitable mp3 player, but if she has to get other people to start it off, because they can't use the display on it, that kind of becomes annoying. Been there, done it!

Before you actually buy one, see if you can at least get an idea of what the display is like for them to say yes or no too.
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw100603 is really interesting regarding various players of various types. You would also then need to research if they are capable of auto-resuming, or at the very least of bookmarking.

Of course, the RNIB shop does some mp3 players, but their portability and my portability are on different planes (ie small phone size versus a desktop player)