For aspiring travel writers, today’s travel gear review comes from Matador Pulse editor and community member, Julie Schwietert.

In an article titled Top 10 Gear Choices for Travel Writers, Julie mentions one of her favorite items – an Olympus Digital Voice Recorder. Here are excerpts from her article.

At a recent bull fight in Mexico, I recorded the sounds of the event that I would not have been able to put down quite the same way in writing.

I’ll definitely use these “audio notes” to write an article, but I may also transfer the files to my laptop and create an audio clip to accompany the written piece.

I use an Olympus handheld digital audio recorder that can capture up to 120 hours and which transfers files with a standard USB cable to a Mac or PC. It’s smaller than a cell phone and costs between $40 and $60.

- Julie Schwietert

I need to get me one of these puppies!

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  • collazoprojects

    Lola- The voice recorder is a great compliment to your camera and Olympus recently came out with a new and even slimmer model that I plan to invest in soon since I dropped my other one in water in Colombia last week!

  • geotraveler

    Hey Julie – That sucks about your recorder! Can you send the link to the newer one? Thanks

  • S Lynsky

    I have this and I have liked it, but I'm realizing that it is not compatible with my mac.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JTSQQRBAQBYUPYSZ6DYPTEWIAI Anthea Y

    Is it suitable for medical transcription.Digital Handheld Recorder are usually using for M T services.http://www.spectramedi.com

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