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Originally Posted by Catlady
How about a Clip Sport with a broken clip? If interested, PM me.
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Thanks for the offer. But I am looking for one that will run Rockbox 3rd party firmware. That is the original Clip, the Clip Zip, and the Clip+. Unfortunately none of the other (newer) Clip versions will run Rockbox. Then the problem becomes, once you find one of these older Clip versions that will run Rockbox, how is the battery? Most are already dead, or on their last legs.
I'm afraid that I will not find a satisfactory old Clip (me, and the 5 bazillion other Rockbox uses that are searching for one!) So I'm hoping that some new MP3 player will have good firmware for listening to audiobooks built-in, so as not to require Rockbox. But many of the newer MP3 players I have researched just don't lend themselves to audiobooks. They lack the ability to bookmark, for example. Or the FF and REW are so slow that it would take forever to move your place in a book. Or they are made so cheaply and function so intermittently that they are mostly unusable. That is the case with the Ruizu player that I just bought (I think it's probably a quality control thing with intermittent buttons), but also, the firmware just does not function logically - but you could probably use the illogical software if you had no other choice.