The Nano Experience...Best Gift I have gotten in a long time but not for the music...

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

I am a gadget guy. I actually worked at a Radio Shack when I was college to learn more about microcomputers for my MBA research paper. I have always played with technology. But I was not very interested in the ipod experience: I don't listen to music. I don't dance. I don't jump around, either.

My wife got me a nano for my birthday, fulled loaded with stuff. We had given every grandchild, and most of the children either the ipod or the nano for Christmas for several years. (The ear pods and itune cards are the gifts for ipod kids for later years when the money is tighter...) I sort of stuck it in the drawer in the study with the cell phone I don't use anymore.

Then, I watched a movie called "Twilight"
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/twilight/
over the Thanksgiving holiday. I was sick and going to see a vamphire love story seemed quite appealing. The movie is based on a book series that seems to be very popular, but I have not read the books and did not know the plot line. http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilightseries.html
However, I did know that it was written by a thirty-some-thing woman who is a Morman in Arizona with three small children. I was very curious. http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/bio.html I am not one for giving away the plot, so I will simply say that I enjoyed the movie, but the books are much more interesting and with some very TRUE experiences of teenage romance and love loss. The characters are wonderful and the story takes place in a mythical place called the Northwest Pacific Rainforest where my ex-wife and son's family live... in REAL forests.

I know this not from reading the books, but from listening to the audio books on my nano, which I borrowed from the library and transfered from CD to computer to nano (actually my wife did it for me which was the real birthday gift... audio books inside your head).

Best gift I have gotten in a long time.

I can recommend the writer Stephenie Meyer, her imaginative, young romanic, love-loss, fantastic, emotional experience series for all Ages ( it even has werewolves in it!) "Twilight" , and the new, cheaper, and more souped up Apple iPod Nano players.

FD