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A couple of years ago I started a quest like you are attempting. A replacement for a SanDisk small MP3 player.
I found ... absolutely nothing. I bought a Chinese player that looked promising and was reviewed fairly well. A Ruizu X26. It was total crap. I could just imagine the Chinese designers sitting at their desks laughing their heads off as I struggled to use that horrid thing. The buttons wouldn't work when you pressed them, but they had a propensity to work when you didn't press them however. Trying to play audiobooks, the stupid thing would randomly decide to skip ahead in a file a few seconds here, a few minutes there, and sometimes all the way to the next file. Which was a random file as well, sometimes not even in the same audiobook.
I went back to using my smartphone running the Smart AudioBook Player app. That is a very good app, and one of the few that I quickly chose to buy the paid version of. Not because the paid version added anything that I needed or wanted, but just to support the developer who did such a great job creating the app.
I had wanted a small MP3 player instead because smart phones are just too big. Plus, I wanted something with physical buttons that controlled it that you could manipulate by feel. The Chinese make little devices that look like MP3 players, but they are actually "Random Operation Generators" that do whatever they want, whenever they want, with zero concern about what YOU are expecting them to do.
My advice: Just give up the small MP3 player journey now, for only darkness and madness await you at its end. Just put Smart AudioBook Player on your phone (it's an Android app, I don't know if they have an iPhone version) and learn to live with using a huge phone to listen to audiobooks that does not have physical control buttons. IIRC, Smart AudioBook Player can redirect some of your normal smartphone buttons to perform different operations, but I've never use that aspect of the app. I just use the touchscreen "virtual button" controls.
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