Thank you for the answers to my question of what iPod to buy my son. I found the answers much more informative and thought provoking than the Apple web site ads. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees, I guess. My son said that if I wanted to spend the cash on the big iPod he wouldn't turn it down but he would be happy with a Nano that has a sweat proof cover. Maybe I should spend the extra on a Shuffle for me. What...jump from a portable CD player to a Shuffle? Barbara, who is now having a panic attack about having to learn something new after she just figured out that the CD player turns "itself" off after 3 minutes!