Techie question on voice recorders

[Pam50]

I'd love to get some kind of simple device so my 92 yr old mum in Oz could record stories about her early life.

Does anyone have any suggestions? She doesn't have a computer unfortunately. Many thanks

[bawdy-nan]

Iphone has very good easy quality voice record...but if your mum hasn't got a computer perhaps she won't have an iphoe either ...

Do you want "quality" recordings? If so - you'll need to think about a mic and something to keep it still so that her voice is recorded and not just the room. You can prop a mic up in some books or look for a recorder that has decent built in mics (and again, prop it so that she is talking into the mic - not too close to it).

This looks to me like a very decent round up of possible recorders (from a site about recording oral history).

http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training/no3.pdf