Audiobooks

The Overdrive Digital Media system seemed to be easy enough to use if you have access to it. You can search for books several different ways: topics, collections, authors or by a method called "Quick Search". You will need a library card, a Windows PC, a Windows media player and access to the internet. It was interesting to learn here how ODM implements a security system to discourage any unlawful use.

The Net Library site gave very detailed instructions about signing up for this service and helpful bits of information about downloading properly to a disk. It was also suggested that you try to download overnight with some additional hints about how to avoid problems.

Project Gutenberg gives you free access to audiobooks. This audiobook library was created by volunteers. It currently has 20,000 books in its collection and access to over 100,000 audiobooks at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates & Resources. I found that more recent books (by authors Nicholas Sparks and James Patterson) did not seem to be available as much as older books (by Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy).