Jones charts his recent obsession with the iPod and his life-long obsession with music. He moves through his interest in music in a pretty much chronlogical order, adding in chapters about Apple. I really enjoyed the early parts of the book, both about his music tastes and surprisingly the stuff about Apple's origins and innovations. The later chapters, where several in a row were just about his opinions on music and his obsessive compiling of playlists and adding music to the iPod were less successful - particularly a chapter about uploading formats, which started off as being about a trip to Ibiza and I never quite understood the relationship between the two. There are some nice little anecdotes in here (many in the footnotes) as Dylan has been a lifestyle journalist so has met a lot of famous people and heard a lot of good stories about them. The book ends with appendices of some of his playlists, which were interesting, although apart from the sheer quantity of his music, I didn't feel particularly inspired by his tastes. Overall his writing lacked the emotional quality of Nick Hornby's 31 Songs or Rob Sheffield's Love is Mix Tape. ( )

The author's trip down memory Lane with his music as he loads his ipod. Goes into the history of vinyl and Apple corp ( )