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either that or one of the Iaudio products like the H5....20 gb of storage
with the ability to play back mp3, ogg, wma and a bunch of other
formats...stores and displays text and vidio, and is accessible with the
speech friendly program called rockbox.
Also the sandisc players are great, specifically the E series....they have
players from 1 gb up to 8gb in the sandisc E series, and all are accessible
with rockbox and very very easy to operate.  Also pretty inexpensive on
ebay.
The victor reader is great if you have the 300 bucks to blow on a toy, or
unless you can justify using it every day for something.
Personally i've already got a laptop that does most of everything, and most
audio media is in mp3 or ogg format, or can quickly be put into those
formats and tossed on the mp3 player that supports ogg.
Ipods are too expensive and are only popular because apple was very very
smart with their branding and marketting campaigns and so now everyone wants
an "ipod" and not just any old mp3 player.  This brings the price up
significantly higher then most other brands of mp3 players.  The ipods are
also program specific much of the time, requiring itunes or some other third
party software to load songs onto them.  Sandisc and Iaudio, and probably
most of the other ones, act as a removable hard drive when you plug them
into the USB port and are quite Jaws friendly that way.
most of them can also act as mass storage devices for document files,
pictures, vidio or whatever else you might want to stick on them.
73
Colin, V A6BKX

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