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Thing 22: E audiobooks

I didn't know Gutenberg had audio titles! Very excellent to know. I'd much rather listen to Beowulf than read it (I think so anyway...) I'd like to see more plays there, though. The list is pretty skimpy right now. But since audiobooks aren't loaned through ILL, it's nice to discover another resource (because I'm pretty sure that all the Overdrive and NetLibrary books are already listed in Sirsi, right?) later amendment: obviously NetLibrary books AREN'T in Sirsi. When I do a general search for "ebook" I only bring up 649 items, and the first dozen are all from Overdrive, so I'm deducing that only Overdrive's books show up in Sirsi so far. So I did a search for the book I'm reading, Sons and Lovers, and found it in NetLibrary. Now I remember why I haven't ever tried doing the download: I have the lowest DSL, not cable, so to download this book so that I could put in on my MP3 player, it would take me HOURS! Then I'd have to transfer it to my player, and that might well take hours, too. If the book were through Overdrive, I could do a chapter at a time, but in NetLibrary, I'd have to do it all--too much!

I did the Ebooks training last year, and I recommend E-audiobooks all the time because books on CD are very popular at my branch! The fact that they don't have to be returned is a plus, too. I think patrons love being able to access this resource from home and transact it all without having to come in or worry about overdue fines. I'd be curious to hear from Teresa Vorce how popular these ebooks/audiobooks are.

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