After some abuse, my iPod (4th generation, refurb bought cheap) has died and is not economical to repair.

I have ordered this setup (a 2nd generation 2GB Shuffle) to replace it after realizing that all I ever do with an iPod is listen to audiobooks and even just 2 GB will hold half a dozen books. ["Just 2 GB." I remember how exciting it was to upgrade our work computer from 80 to 160 MB for just $1200. Hell, the first computer I ever used had an $8,000 hard drive that had five MB of storage.]

I haven't used a shuffle, but no doubt some of you have, so perhaps can answer a few rather generic questions.

1) Does it use a standard headphone jack? That is, can I use SWMBO's noise-canceling Bose headphones with it sometimes?

2) Without a display, how do I navigate to a specific track?

3) Can it remember my playlist location on power-up the way a "regular" iPod does?

4) Will it really give 12 hours of battery life? (Of course it won't, but how much could I really expect?

5) Can an iPod Shuffle battery be replaced by mere mortals, or is that a specialist job?

That's all I can think of at the moment.

tanstaafl.