Digital Audio Books
Earlier this year, I went on a long road trip with my friend, Jill, and I thought I would bring along some audiobooks. I borrowed three on CD and two on cassette, and I ended up with two grocery bags full of audiobooks to keep up with! When I picked her up, said she brought ten audiobooks of her own because she could not choose. "No way. Where will we have room for ten audiobooks, Jill?" I asked, pointing to the grocery bags of CD and cassette boxes. Then, Jill held up her mp3 player, smaller than a deck of cards. Man, I knew I should have checked out this downloadable audiobook thing!
Top Ten Reasons To Use Digital Audio books
10. No one has ever lost one under the seat of their car.
9. You can fit a dozen books on one mp3 player.
8. You can check them out while wearing pajamas.
7. Finally learn how to pronounce names from the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.
6. They’re better than the radio—no static as you travel further from home.
5. Digital Bookmarks are hard to misplace.
4. Your cat likes stories, too.
3. They take themselves back to the library.
2. No skips or scratches to deal with.
1. The library will not call looking for missing disc number five.
| Digital Audiobooks Activity: 1. Find your library's Overdrive collection:
3. Tell us how it went in the Audio Books forum. Do you have any questions? Discuss them in the Digital Audiobooks Forum. *If you've really tried, but you're unable to complete the exercise due to restrictions on your library computers, you can still get credit for this exercise. The summer is hot enough. We don't want to make you sweat. |
Contributed by Kyle Cook and Jenny Ellis and Ronara Williams
Last updated by Wendy Cornelisen May 19.
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