I am currently experimenting with my old Sansa Clip with Rockbox firmware for listening to audiobooks. So far, I am very impressed with this setup. But looking forward, it is only a matter of time before my Sansa Clip dies (it's got to be about ten years old!) So I'm looking for my next MP3 player for audiobooks so I'll know the market when the time comes to buy my Clip. The Agptek G05 looks interesting to me, and is certainly priced inexpensively.
One feature that I do not understand from their manual, and it's an important feature for me, is bookmarks. I want the ability to set at least one bookmark for each file (in my case, "file" = "complete audiobook"). For audiobooks that come as multiple files, I am converting those into one large MP3 file. So far so good in that experiment.
Back to my question: Do you
manually set bookmarks using the standard Agptek firmware, or are the automatically set for you when you pause playback, change to a different file, power down the device, etc.? The description from the manual below doesn't really say how/when they are set:
Quote:
Bookmarks
It is marked by the stopping time as “hh:mm:ss”.So you can set the stopping time before you
add it for continues playing next time conveniently.
Maximum number of bookmarks supported by each audio file is 10. You can also cover the
previous bookmark with new bookmark, and then the old one will be replaced by the new.
You can find the bookmarks you saved with the option “Go to bookmark” under item
“Bookmarks”, and you can delete them with the option “Delete bookmark”.
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Another question: Since I looking at having my audiobooks as one large MP3 file each, this implies some rather large MP3 files. A 1Gb file is not unexpected. So when you are holding down the fast forward or rewind button on the Agptek player, does the speed accelerate the longer you hold it down? If not, I can imagine holding down that button for an hour to scroll through a large file.
Thanks in advance for any comments!
Also, I see that Agptek now has a newer model G6 payer. And also a G15 player. The G6 adds about $5 to the price of the G05, the G15 adds about $10. Does anyone know what all comes with the price increase? I think for the G15, you get more internal memory and (???) bluetooth. I think the G6 adds bluetooth. Are there any other features, useful for audiobooks, that either of these players offer over the G05? I definitely want to have independent bookmarks per file, so if either of these newer players gets rid of that feature it is a showstopper, regardless of what other features they may add.