For goodness sakes folks, it's a portable, personal, music player that you're paying, at most, a few hundred dollars for

This is nice, compact, fits all my music, and works well.

I love to listen to recored books and the iPod is perfect for that, and of course music too

Because I am an avid music collector (albums and CDs), and "rip" my own music at high bitrates, I've always needed a high capacity model, which meant having a spinning hard drive.

so I could load all my classical music on it (the previous 4 gig had only popular music).

so I have lots of room for all the popular music I haven't put on it and maybe more classical.