>I find it better to do my own searches, often on cnet.com where it will do price comparisons for me or just go to amazon.com. The 4Gig player sells for just under $200.

We got our daughter one of 4G for $125 - a Sansa. The software which runs it is quite well written, loading it is as simple as writing to any other thumb drive, it can do recording, you can read texts on it, screen isn't too small. Can't complain, specially for that price.