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Title: Good for the kids, not suitable for audiobooks
Review: The kids wanted MP3 players for Christmas and I instantly fell in love with Sandisk's e200 series players (Santa delivered 3 of them). I thought I'd borrow one of them from the kids and switch from being a "books on tape" to a "books on MP3" listener. Wrong.Like so many other MP3 players, these are missing 2 important software features: variable-speed/high gain fast-forward & reverse, and bookmarking. Without these the unit is worthless for trying to listen to an hours-long audio book. Without bookmarking, you'll frequently find yourself inadvertently reset at the beginning of the book. And its 5X fast-forward would take 2 hours of button-holding just to get back to the end of a 10-hour book.Each of these features is a fairly trivial bit of software/firmware. And Sandisk has wisely built into the e200 series the ability to update the firmware. For now I'll hold out hope that Sandisk will retrofit these features into their firmware.
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