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Apple iPod touch 8 GB (3rd Generation) NEWEST MODEL
$195.00
Excellent device, easy to use and portable. Would be better if Apple would allow the use of Adobe Flash. Sound not great on built in speaker, but didn't expect it to be. Sounds great with ear-buds. One of the greatest inventions in the past ten years, would consider an iPhone for my next purchase.

Apple iPod touch 16 GB (2nd Generation) OLD MODEL
$279.99
The Ipod touch is everything I thought it would be and am very happy that I purchased it! Definitely Money well spent!

Touch
$16.99
Forgive the pun in the title, but I think the title of the book, "Touch" has a lot of meaning to it, to what the book is about, and to how it feels to read it. Touching.

This is the story of a girl, Maisie (but it could be any girl), who has to deal with issues that every girl must face. The issue of growing up, of watching friends change before your very eyes, of watching your own body change into something you can barely recognize. Because that's what happens. Nobody even really realizes the moment when other boys and girls start to lose their cooties. Suddenly girls/boys aren't icky, they're fascinating. This story is about that. It's about four friends who grow up and realize that they aren't friends but three boys and a girl. And as the four of them struggle to understand that, they take steps and make mistakes that (unfortunately) affect them for the rest of their lives.

I loved the characters. Kevin and Chris, two of Maisie's friends, didn't really have personalities but they had an important role in the novel. The rest of the characters are amazing, even if you hate most of them as Maisie does. Maisie is a girl who could be any ninth-grade girl, dealing with problems that too many people have to face (losing friendship, divorce, and touching). Shakes was also amazing. I'm not sure why I liked him so much, considering what he did. Maybe because Maisie liked him so much. And while Kevin and Chris had, in a way, chosen to separate themselves, Maisie lost Shakes because of circumstances. And it hurt me as much as it hurt Maisie to see him drift away.

This book reads very quickly. It may be some 300-odd pages, but it goes by fast because the pace is constant, never slowing. The story is told as a retelling most of the time, so it feels as if Maisie is sitting down and telling you everything (which, I'm sure, is how it's supposed to read). I was so desperate to know what happens that I had to resist the urge to skip pages just to learn if everything would turn out all right. And in a way, the ending was better than it could have been, but still was very realistic. Given the circumstances, you know from the beginning that there's no way to have a perfect, happy ending. Maisie knows that too.

In the end, it was a quick read, but meaningful with no wasted space. I finished the book and thought about it for some time afterwards, so I know it left an impression. Especially if you're a teenage girl like myself (or maybe even a guy) you'll identify with this book in a lot of ways.

Touch Screen 4GB 2.8-Inch TFT MP4/MP3 Movie Music Personal Media Player
$249.99
Very nice. The player is very nice. It plays all my video files without any problem. I have tried FLV from youTube, and some avi files downloaded from the internet.
Music function is pretty good, just like it should be. It has a Puzzle like game. Moving around the block to form a picture. Photos displayed in thumbnail format. I am buying a couple more for Christmas.