My wife always insisted on the Sansa Clip, the original one not the newer Clip+ model. It was the only player she ever found that handled audiobooks well. As an amazon review says:
When you restart the CLIP and select your book from the Audiobook folder, it highlights the last part number you were at. When you select that file, it asks you if you want to resume or start from the beginning. Also if you are listening and are interrupted you can pause and restart. If you missed what was being said, due to loud noise or your boss⌠you can hold down the rewind and go back to the exact spot, even if you were at the beginning of a new file and wanted to rewind to the end of the last file. This scenario happens often when listening to books. That is why the CLIP is so great. It knows the difference between a book part and an individual song when you load the files to the AUDIOBOOK folder!
WARNING !!!
Unlike the original CLIP the CLIP+ treats each Audiobook part as a separate song. If you accidentally fast forward to the next book segment (file) you cannot rewind to the previous part. You can only jump back to the beginning of the previous part and fast forward through the 45 min or 60 mins to the place you want. If you miss this place and fast forward to the next part you have to start all over at the beginning of the previous file.
SO BUY THE ORIGNAL CLIP WHILE IT LASTS.
So now any used original ones sell for triple what the new, much larger capacity ones sell for - that is, if you can even find one. But they donât last because they stopped making them years ago and their batteries are all old.
I was fortunate enough to have a Rio Car that I bought for about half price when they cancelled it. It was a device that was truly ahead of its time. Later, I got a Rio Karma which lasted me a few years until it finally failed due to a well-known issue with the internal drive. My last standalone mp3 player was a Toshiba Gigabeat F running a custom firmware called RockBox which made it more feature rich than most (all?) other mp3 players at the time.
Incidentally, Rockbox is available for the Sansa Clip players, and might make a Clip+ work as well or better than an original Clip, if one were so inclined.
Draw saws are very good at making a laser-straight cutâŚwhich they will continue to do whether or not that cut is actually following the desired line. Theyâre difficult to steer back home once they stray off course. With a conventional western saw, I find itâs a bit easier to curve a straying kerf back to where it should be.
I also like western saws for quickly & carelessly powering through rough cuts; do that too often with a Japanese saw and youâre likely to snap the blade.
TLDR: Japanese saws are lovely, but they are sometimes less tolerant of imperfect technique than their Western counterparts.
When I first started at Dorsey Business School, we used PCs and WordPerfect; I graduated in 1994.
When I got my early-out for getting a job, the law offices I worked at used PCsâŚbut they were a bitâŚum, older than what I learned on. The keyboard had an âExecuteâ button (a fun thing to press when angry), and the monitor had the same green-letter display at the one pictured above.
It may be partly nostalgia, but those monochrome monitors seemed so much more clear and sharp than todayâs typical HD monitors.
Of course people will say âoh but they used CRTs so of course they were blurrier, and they had lower resolutionâ. But you could see every pixel clearly. Canât do that with modern monitors.
The pixels were big and they had exactly one resolution. No sub-pixel hinting, only one color and gun, and only one grid screen. Monochrome CRTs worked great.
My employer will (hopefully) be getting rid of the last 100 or so VMUs (Vehicle Mounted Unit - aka Rugged Computer mounted on a lift truck) that run Windows CE this year.
Provided we can actually physically get our hands on enough of the models we are currently deploying.
