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slovobooks. See you next spring, assuming sheer decrepitude hasn't taken its toll.
slovobooks. See you next spring, assuming sheer decrepitude hasn't taken its toll.Oct. 26th, 2010
Happy Birthday
Oct. 26th, 2010 10:50 amMany happy returns to that ancient slovobooks. See you next spring, assuming sheer decrepitude hasn't taken its toll.
slovobooks. See you next spring, assuming sheer decrepitude hasn't taken its toll.Following autopope's suggestion, I have now replaced my creaking-at-the-seams, bulky and battery-dead MP3 player with a smaller, lighter and more capacious model from Apple(!), namely a second hand 80GB 5th generation iPod.
I've now loaded 50+ GB of music onto it (thank you, Media Monkey - no iTunes will be allowed on this machine).
I have to say, it's pretty cute for its generation.
The reason for going for that is that the new generation of models from Cowon and Co. look very nice, but I think that what I really, really want isn't quite here yet. Namely, a flash-based one that understands the SDXC flash format, and that can head for the 128GB mark. So I'm going with the iPod for now. If I get a few thousands hours of listening out of it (which I reckon I did with my previous one), I'll be happy.
(One of these days, I may total how much an hour I've been paying to listen to music on MP3 players. The previous player amortised at about 5p/hour. The earplugs have been more than that - they're newer - but they show no sign of giving up yet.)
autopope's suggestion, I have now replaced my creaking-at-the-seams, bulky and battery-dead MP3 player with a smaller, lighter and more capacious model from Apple(!), namely a second hand 80GB 5th generation iPod.I've now loaded 50+ GB of music onto it (thank you, Media Monkey - no iTunes will be allowed on this machine).
I have to say, it's pretty cute for its generation.
The reason for going for that is that the new generation of models from Cowon and Co. look very nice, but I think that what I really, really want isn't quite here yet. Namely, a flash-based one that understands the SDXC flash format, and that can head for the 128GB mark. So I'm going with the iPod for now. If I get a few thousands hours of listening out of it (which I reckon I did with my previous one), I'll be happy.
(One of these days, I may total how much an hour I've been paying to listen to music on MP3 players. The previous player amortised at about 5p/hour. The earplugs have been more than that - they're newer - but they show no sign of giving up yet.)
Following autopope's suggestion, I have now replaced my creaking-at-the-seams, bulky and battery-dead MP3 player with a smaller, lighter and more capacious model from Apple(!), namely a second hand 80GB 5th generation iPod.
I've now loaded 50+ GB of music onto it (thank you, Media Monkey - no iTunes will be allowed on this machine).
I have to say, it's pretty cute for its generation.
The reason for going for that is that the new generation of models from Cowon and Co. look very nice, but I think that what I really, really want isn't quite here yet. Namely, a flash-based one that understands the SDXC flash format, and that can head for the 128GB mark. So I'm going with the iPod for now. If I get a few thousands hours of listening out of it (which I reckon I did with my previous one), I'll be happy.
(One of these days, I may total how much an hour I've been paying to listen to music on MP3 players. The previous player amortised at about 5p/hour. The earplugs have been more than that - they're newer - but they show no sign of giving up yet.)
autopope's suggestion, I have now replaced my creaking-at-the-seams, bulky and battery-dead MP3 player with a smaller, lighter and more capacious model from Apple(!), namely a second hand 80GB 5th generation iPod.I've now loaded 50+ GB of music onto it (thank you, Media Monkey - no iTunes will be allowed on this machine).
I have to say, it's pretty cute for its generation.
The reason for going for that is that the new generation of models from Cowon and Co. look very nice, but I think that what I really, really want isn't quite here yet. Namely, a flash-based one that understands the SDXC flash format, and that can head for the 128GB mark. So I'm going with the iPod for now. If I get a few thousands hours of listening out of it (which I reckon I did with my previous one), I'll be happy.
(One of these days, I may total how much an hour I've been paying to listen to music on MP3 players. The previous player amortised at about 5p/hour. The earplugs have been more than that - they're newer - but they show no sign of giving up yet.)