Take a look at the olympus recorders, some of them will do mp3, but most do 
.wma, and wav.
You can pause and resume with them generally by pressing the record button 
while recording, and pressing it again when you want to resume.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:31 PM
Subject: looking for digital recorder


> I'm looking for a digital recorder that will let me stop and resume
> recording or appending the same file, just like you would do on a
> cassette.  I would prefer mp3 format.  I could probably find a program on
> the computer that would do this, but looking for something portable.
> Anyone got any ideas.  I have a victor stream and book sense, but although
> you can pause wile recording, you can't add to the file once it is
> stopped.
>
> Hope all that makes sense.
>
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> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.