The SanDisk Sansa Fuze made our personal list because it is a lot cheaper than the iPod nano, is nice and small and still does a ton of stuff. We can’t shoot videos with the Fuze, but if we want to take videos, we’d probably use our camera instead anyway.

I wasn’t really that excited about getting what I considered to be kids’ MP3 players until I realized that the SanDisk Sansa Fuze is not just for kids. It is a great way to catch up on my “reading” with some audio books and has a handy memo option that I am quite excited about. I also like the storage capacity. You can literally store a limitless number of files because Sandisk made the Sansa compatible with its line of memory cards.

Now, I just need to figure out how to download a movie to the player, because I think having a kids’ cartoon on it will come in handy during waits at the dentist, trips to the grocery store, etc. The public domain files I found through the Internet Archives weren’t compatible.