Thread: WHY no txt???
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Old March 18th, 2008, 11:14 PM
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Who's the idiot, exactly?
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Originally Posted by icandyman View Post
I'm not American. And people generally don't buy mp3 players to read text files. People generally buy - what do you call them again? Oh yeah. Books.
Being rude isn't big and it isn't clever, so please take it else where.

Believe it or not, there are lots of uses for having text functionality on mp3 players. I used to have a highly useful address book on mine where I'd created a text file for each person and in it was their postal address, email address and contact phone numbers. I'd also occasionally put other information such as date of birth in there as well. I found this much more convenient than have a paper based address book because I'd be less likely to lose it. It was harder to update, obviously because I couldn't just write on it with a pen or pencil, but was still highly useful.
I also used to have my bus time table on there as well which again, meant I didn't have to carry a paper version around.

Not everyone is the same, and everyone has different uses for their players. If you want to fill your player with Britney's latest chart flop, sure go ahead, but there's no need to be rude just because someone else has the sense to store more practical information on there
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