So when I started my current job I was an untrained peon who spent the first month of my job cleaning dots off of scanned documents. Literally. I thought my brain would die. It was 8 hours a day of erasing dots in Paint. Dot. Erase. Dot. Erase.
So I obviously had to think of something to save my brain. 8 hours of music wasn't going to cut it so I thought of listening to recorded books. Now I did have a portable CD player that I dug up initially but I soon learned I could check out digital books from my library! Sweeeeet. Which led to me going to Best Buy to get something affordable with a screen so I could see what I was listening to. Which led me to my friend, my little blue Sansa Clip. I've probably listened to at least a hundred books on that. It's great for moments of mindless office work, going on walks, long car drives. It holds my place in the book I'm listening to. Oh, and it costs WAY LESS than an iPod.
But here's the kicker. At Christmas last year Joe and I left right after I got off work at 5 to drive down to VA. It was pitch black and it turned out I had dropped my Sansa on the ground in the parking lot behind our house. It was submitted to the Syracuse winter weather for a week before I found it- completely soaked- lying in the gravel where my landlord must have swept or shoveled it. Not a scratch. Not a hiccup. Still works perfectly.
And there's the issue of my spilling a glass of wine on it tonight and it not even caring ;)
All this to say, if you're looking for something to listen to books or music on, consider a Sansa! Reliable, tough and affordable.
That is the end of my Sansa plug.
