Hi Mandy, I use the Ipod and the Iriver. If you want to read text files then the bc might be good for you if you are maybe wanting some thing that has a lot of space on it and want to listen to large audio books in MP3 then the Iriver is a good bet I use the 320 and the 340 their is not much between them. But the 340 has a 40 gig hard drive on it and the 320 has a 20 gig hard drive hth.