Now here's a reason to buy an iPOD......
When I bought my new car, it had a port in it where my portable music device could be plugged and played through the car stereo. Not owning such a thing...................well.............. :oops: .........now I do.
Like you, I LOVE it. When I learned that it would replace a laptop computer when travelling, that nailed the sale. I even booked hotels in advance using my iPOD touch when on holidays last summer. If you play games on it, the battery goes dead quickly. That's okay, carry a wall-plug charger.
The best thing of all are the playlists and podcasts. It's against the law here to use an iPOD when driving but that applies to the scrolling and flipping. I do a LOT of driving and just set my iPOD to a playlist of music I've sorted, or to a series of podcasts and away I go. Perfect!!