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["Brian Giles" <briangiles7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Geetha,
Given that you'd be using your iPod just for audio books, I would probably
recommend a Nano.  Keep in mind though, that the newer ones, or the ones
that come in different colors and are aluminum, don't work with rockbox as
far as I know.  With the iPod Nanos, you can enable the clicks that the
wheel makes when you spin it to be heard through your headphones, something
I can't do on my 30 gig iPod Video.  The aluminum Nanos come in 2 gig, 4
gig, and 8 gig.  The Shuffle is only a one gig, but I think it does play
audio books.  The Shuffle is the easiest to use as far as accessibility goes
because of the fact that it doesn't have a screen.  I used to have an old
style Shuffle and I loved it, but I would never go back now that I have my
iPod Video.  Then again, I mostly use it for music.  I do have a few
podcasts, audio books, several pictures, and yes even a couple videos  on it
though.  Also, keep in mind that any newer iPod will require you to use
iTunes 7.0 or later, and that may or may not present problems depending on
the version of JAWS you have.  I haven't used it much so I can't really tell
you much about that.  There are of course, other ways of putting content
onto your iPod rather than iTunes, but I've never used them.  The portable
player portal website does a good job explaining them all, though.

Another suggestion for you.  Since you say you'd be using your iPod mostly
for audio books, have you considered a Book Port?  I only got to see one for
a few minutes once, but it does a lot.  You can play audio books, daisy
books, and read grade 2 braille books and text  documents.  I don't know if
the Book Port has a limit of how big of a compact flash card you can put
into it, but they are pretty big these days.  I have an 8 gig compact flash
card in my PAC Mate, which gives me just as much as the highest capacity
iPod Nano.  Just something to think about.

HTH,
Brian

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