Ipod Advice

[Paula in MS]

I have been burning audiobooks on CD for my dd6 to listen to at bedtime and am wondering if an ipod would be much easier for us. We are trying to read through and/or listen through audiobooks in the Ambleside online year 1 list. I have no idea how many hours of books would fit on an Ipod. Do I need a 4GB or an 8GB? Can you download to an ipod faster than a CD? I have downloaded into i-tunes most of the books that I would like for her to listen to, but it takes forever to burn to a CD.

I guess the primary questions are will an ipod make life easier, and if so, what size do we need?

Thanks,

Paula

[Mama Lynx]

Once you have the book in your iTunes, it takes just a couple of minutes to put it on an iPod. It's much faster, and you don't have all those CDs hanging around.

For audiobooks, I would go with the biggest size you can afford. For reference, my audio files of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is about one full GB. "The Two Towers" is 780 MB. "The Horse and His Boy" is only 390 MB. But you can see that if you tried to keep more than one book on there, 4 GB would fill up quickly - especially because your actual capacity will be a little less than whatever it says it is.

I definitely think iPods make life easier.

[TejasMamacita]

Yes, an ipod would probably be much easier.

Get whatever size you can afford. I have a little ipod nano as well as a big video ipod. The little one holds I know at least 6 or 7 books at a time and a couple of them are really long Harry Potter books. When you "sync" your ipod with the books in your itunes, you can put the ones you want on your ipod and leave off the ones you don't need at the time, so it doesn't really matter what size hard drive your ipod has unless you are wanting to keep every single book you own on your ipod at all times.

What would also be a good investment is the little ipod charger that has speakers on it so that if more than one person is listening, you don't need to have headphones for everyone and everyone doesn't have to gather around the computer. Something like an ihome.

It just takes literally seconds to download the audio books into your itunes and then a minute or two to "sync" them to your ipod. There's a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it . . . it'll take seconds and you'll be doing in your sleep.

I hope that helps! :001_smile:

[Happy]

Agreeing that an iPod would be easy. I'm not a music person, but I love listening to audio books on my iPod. I download quite a few things from audible.com to my computer, then to my iPod.