Talk:Pack Your Bag

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Anonymous user (89.138.93.127) said this:

Most of this advice is from the top three things quiz I ask hobos, tramps, board bums, and permanent expats. -- Doctormatt 10:08, 27 July 2006 (PDT)

Recent generations of iPods with screens, however, have what is called a Notes function. A user who enables Disk Access to their iPod can upload up to 1,000 individual text files of up to 4kb each and view them on their iPod. This means that you can now keep copywrite-free texts such as eBooks on your iPod for portable viewing. The Notes function also allows very basic HTML which allows the user to link to different files on the iPod. www.manybooks.net offers thousands of works available in a pre-existing iPod note format, or you can download the text files yourself and edit out what you don't want. www.gutenberg.org also offers a massive amount of free text documents. We reccomend The Communist Manifesto and Kafka's Selected Shorter Writings as must-haves, but any number of stories from the short-stories collection can make for great reads on the go. This is, however, if you invest in one of the newer iPods.

Great but edit for length and as much as possible make non-product specific reference (which in this case will be tough), not sure how many other players do this, maybe also mention mobile phones or other gadgets. Specific setup is not needed since it will surely change by next year. Ploney jun13.08

-I just thought i'd mention the fact that the new iPods offered this. it's pretty nice if if you were considering an mp3 player as something to bring on the road. Maybe we should merge it with the other electronics bit since they can also be used as portable disk drives. Considering what the article has on eBook readers as of now (a waste of a paragraph), we might as well put some info in about usable eBook readers. these iPods were the first decent things i've seen other than the Kindle. -Zac