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Originally Posted by Chris Gralapp
I listen to audiobooks in bed. I have poor vision, so I like a listening device that I can operate by touch, rather than by looking at a display, if possible. For this reason, I use a CD player (Walkman!) with manual controls--I can 'rewind', fast forward etc., fairly easily by touch, without having to look.
BTW, I have a great library system here where I live that has a huge selection of CD books. I also use Hoopla sometimes, and have used Audible and Audiobooks.com, but prefer the free option of the library materials. I use Overdrive, too sometimes.
I know CD players are a dying technology. Are there any equivalent devices for digitally downloaded audiobooks? I have been purchasing old Walkman players on eBay, but this will probably not be viable forever. I also use a Sansa Fuse, which I love, but it has a clunky interface, and is hard to navigate. Maybe there is a small, updated, easy to navigate equivalent to the Sansa Fuse? I really need to be able to restart my story where I have left off--that is super important.
I realized that there are a lot of topics and questions here, but I would love to get a bead on the most efficient devices folks are using. Thanks!
Chris
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Hi, Chris, and welcome to MobileRead!
I like to listen to audiobooks in bed, too. You've mentioned your poor vision and I hope you won't be offended by my suggestion, as I don't know how limited it is. For what it's worth, I had close to a year of extremely limited vision (I was lucky in that it was temporary) and audiobooks were a godsend. Would it work for you to have a tablet in conjunction with a Bluetooth speaker for audiobook playback? At least with a tablet, you could make the typeface/web pages very large and the controls on the native apps (OverDrive, Audible) would be accessible. This would be good in particular because the controls tends to be nice, whether it's jumping forward or back, speeding up the playback, or setting up a sleep timer. I'm addicted to my sleep timer, myself. It makes it so much easier to find the place where I dropped off.
I have a few Sansa devices, but I really prefer the Android/iOS apps and it means you don't have to transfer the audiobooks to the device, but just download them.