Pause/Play with Touch 3G

I have a iPod video 5G which I use mostly for audiobooks. My wife has a Touch 3G. She also listens to audiobooks, but has to fiddle with the thing everytime she wants to pause it. She can double-click the 'home' button, but that only brings up a pause/play 'menu', then she still has to fiddle with the thing to actually to the pausing or playing. If someone needs to talk to me while I'm listening, all I need to do is reach down to my old iPod 5G and click the pause/play - - I don't have to look at it - it couldn't be simpler. Not so with my wife and her Touch - sometimes I think it should be called the "look, fiddle, & touch."
The simple solution would be to make it so that double-clicking the 'home' button would instantly pause (and double-clicking again for play), as well as bring up that menu. Adding the Volume buttons was a big step forward, but they need to change this.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone has any good solutions to this hassle or if there might be an app the would do it? I admire her Touch and would buy one in a heartbeat if they made this one simple fix!

Her iPod Touch 3g came with Apple earbuds with a microphone. Use those earbuds since there are controls where the microphone is. Push the center button and iPod Touch will pause. Push it again and it will start from where it was paused. It also has the foward and backward advance buttons.
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