[SeaBookGuy]

As a test, I dragged an Overdrive audiobook in mp3 format onto the storage card, to see how my reader would work doing "double duty": okay but not optimal.

The new album format displays each book under "audio" by thumbnail, followed by a list of parts (instead of music tracks) to tap. In one sense, it's set up better for books than music, in that the progress bar (time elapsed) isn't as important for a music track than for a book; for single-file (hours long) Net Library books, this feature would be even more useful; it did resume nicely where I'd left off.

Two things made me give up after an hour's listen.

1) The reader was just too bulky to work with listening on the bus, etc.

2) I found I developed a mental block against using it for both. I felt guilty that I wasn't reading an e-book instead, as that was what I paid $200 for ... I already have three perfectly good audio devices!

Battery remained at four bars, and I'd had some e-reading since the previous charge as well. I was slightly impressed as I'd thought there'd have been more drain.

That having been said, I do keep some spoken audio material on the storage card - just in case I find myself either not being able to, or wanting to, read print material.

I would recommend folks who aren't (as) familiar with audiobooks, and would like to try one, say at home, or at the end of the day on a trip, etc. check out the feature, before committing to buying an mp3 player.