Thursday, September 27, 2007

#Optional - Audiobooks

Downloadable eAudiobooks are becoming more popular in library situations, while the e book has been touted for years.

Subscription services such as Netlibrary and Overdrive enable libraries to purchase audio files, so library members can download them onto their mp3 players.
The beauty of this is that after the loan period expires, the audio file is deleted from the mp3player.

For this discovery exercise, you merely need to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of the World EBook fair site (a free siteDownloadable eAudiobooks site)

Browse and locate a few titles of interest.

Discovery Resources:

Discovery Exercise:

Click on the eAudiobooks link and explore some of the titles.

These are FREE downloads here from the Gutenberg Project.
If you have Real Player or Windows Media Player installed you can listen right there or download to an MP3 device.

Interesting links can also be found at the

Create a blog post about your findings.

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