Last weekend I joined audible.com, in an attempt to get all of that “other” reading (you know, those books you want to read, but just never find the time for) out of the way. Along with that, I signed up for a year and got in on the iPod Nano 1GB for $49.95 deal.
I got my Nano on Wednesday, and spent most of my spare time that night and the next trying to figure out how I was going to get music/audiobooks onto it. Apparently the directions for getting iTunes working on Linux (using Wine) are a little old. And my attempts to get my windows partition of my laptop working under VMWare Player ended in me needing to reinstall XP Home.
So, I have effectively had my Nano for about about 36 hours. and the verdict: I love it. I cannot believe I waited so long to buy one. The interface is very friendly, and the audio quality is great.
As for Audible? Its pretty good too. I am currently listening to Freakinomics, which is a complete bender. I wish that more tech books were on there, such as Pragmatic Programmer, or Peopleware… I would hate to listen to a reference manual though, could you imagine a Audiobook on the Java Standard Library?
yuck.
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