I was given a 3g 10gb iPod for Christmas. I love it. It is so elegantly desgined, its a joy to use.
You can replace the battery yourself, if you wish:
http://www.ipodbattery.com/
A great site devoted to iPods:
http://ipodlounge.com/index.php
I recently bought a Exo2 case by Lajo, very nice
http://www.lajo.biz
Also upgraded to the new iPod in-the-ear headphones from Apple, like those much better than the buds.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...nMore=M9394G/A
I travel my car a lot. Its nice to have dozens of CDs with me, stored in my iPod, For now I use a cassette adapter. But will look at some sort of direct connect after I trade cars in a month or two. My son was able to pick up an add-on connection to his Kenwood stereo. There are several methods to feed the signal from the iPod directly into you car stereo. Do a google and you'll see, depending on the stereo you have, many choices. Check the iPodlounge, also.