Playaway challenge

I actually brought home a playaway before I read this challenge. I checked out Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri last week and was able to listen to the first short story when I took July for a walk Thursday morning. I had a little trouble with the buttons because I was guessing about what did what and being half blind doesn't help with the little buttons. I found the playaway site that described what the buttons do just now and that helped. (Emily, the links are just going to spots that tell you that blog is not available) There is also a pretty good size illustration of the buttons inside the front cover of the case that would have been helpful had I not just popped the thing out of the case and just started punching buttons. I really enjoyed listening to the story on our walk but noticed that I would miss little things that if I were reading I would go back and reread the line or the paragraph. I really like listening to music when I walk the dog because the beat gets you fired up but this is another way to increase the amount I read so that can't be a bad thing. I really like doing the car thing but I find that I don't drive very far by myself anymore. Which is a good thing. Another thing, I had to bring the thing in for Angie to help me get the battery cover off to put a new one in. It wouldn't open for me. Perhaps I was afraid of breaking it.