Me own head next...
Dec. 29th, 2014 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
attractivegeekeryThis past Free Comic Day was the last time I had my iPod Nano on hand. I loved that thing, but clearly not enough to keep tabs on it when I was driving back from New Hampshire in a state of TMNT Fangirl Bliss. I know I had it in the car, because I was listening to the Veronica Mars audiobook, which I'd finished half way home...much to my chagrin.
It was a day later when I realized I no longer had my little red square of joy that I'd named Atrocitus. I mourned the little blighter, and then...just moved on. I mostly used it for audiobooks on the bus and to listen to the televisions at the gym, but as the seasons were changing and I was doing more biking, I really didn't notice it was gone. My android phone took up the PodCast slack way better than the iPod ever did, so...no big.
Or so I thought...
During the initial unpacking stages of my return from the holidays I discovered that I still had $40 of iTunes Gift Money from last Christmas, and thought: Ooooh! Audiobooks!
I've been eyeing the Amy Poehler and Mindy Kailing books for a while now, and love the idea of listening to them read their own words. It worked fantastic for Tina Fey's book...so I went and bought them, knowing I didn't have a decent iPod to listen to them on.
I have two other iPods. Why? I have absolutely no idea.
Actually, that's not true. I do know why.
The iPod Color I got as a gift right when that beast first came out. It still runs and works fine, so long as it's plugged in. At the moment it lives at my desk in a speaker dock and is pretty much just a jukebox.
The iPod Shuffle has Couch2 5K Week One on it, and pretty much nothing else.
I bought it for jogging waaaaay back in the day and loved it in spite of its lack of screen. Though...damn, I really didn't know how important the screen was until I tried to get that thing to do something more than just join me on a jog.
That's why I bought the Nano a few years back. For the screen.
So now I have these two audiobooks I'd really like to listen to, but I'm unsure how to make that happen.
I suppose I could download iTunes on my work computer, link it to my account, and just listen at work while I do Data Entry. Though...there's no real way to tell if my computer is going to react to that resource hog of a program.
I could bring the Color home, upload the books there, and then again only listen while I'm at my desk.
There's got to be a way to strip the DRM from my legally purchased files so that they're playable on my phone, though...I'm assuming the files themselves are HUGE and that'd require me to have to free up a ton of space.
Or...the easiest: I could just buy a new iPod.
Times are most certainly tough when this is the conundrum that sits before me.
It was a day later when I realized I no longer had my little red square of joy that I'd named Atrocitus. I mourned the little blighter, and then...just moved on. I mostly used it for audiobooks on the bus and to listen to the televisions at the gym, but as the seasons were changing and I was doing more biking, I really didn't notice it was gone. My android phone took up the PodCast slack way better than the iPod ever did, so...no big.
Or so I thought...
During the initial unpacking stages of my return from the holidays I discovered that I still had $40 of iTunes Gift Money from last Christmas, and thought: Ooooh! Audiobooks!
I've been eyeing the Amy Poehler and Mindy Kailing books for a while now, and love the idea of listening to them read their own words. It worked fantastic for Tina Fey's book...so I went and bought them, knowing I didn't have a decent iPod to listen to them on.
I have two other iPods. Why? I have absolutely no idea.
Actually, that's not true. I do know why.
The iPod Color I got as a gift right when that beast first came out. It still runs and works fine, so long as it's plugged in. At the moment it lives at my desk in a speaker dock and is pretty much just a jukebox.
The iPod Shuffle has Couch2 5K Week One on it, and pretty much nothing else.
I bought it for jogging waaaaay back in the day and loved it in spite of its lack of screen. Though...damn, I really didn't know how important the screen was until I tried to get that thing to do something more than just join me on a jog.
That's why I bought the Nano a few years back. For the screen.
So now I have these two audiobooks I'd really like to listen to, but I'm unsure how to make that happen.
I suppose I could download iTunes on my work computer, link it to my account, and just listen at work while I do Data Entry. Though...there's no real way to tell if my computer is going to react to that resource hog of a program.
I could bring the Color home, upload the books there, and then again only listen while I'm at my desk.
There's got to be a way to strip the DRM from my legally purchased files so that they're playable on my phone, though...I'm assuming the files themselves are HUGE and that'd require me to have to free up a ton of space.
Or...the easiest: I could just buy a new iPod.
Times are most certainly tough when this is the conundrum that sits before me.
