Monday, December 10, 2007

#10 Audiobooks

Downloading audiobooks is ok-- if you don't mind the limited selection of titles or the horribly long download times. The one--and only--self help book I looked at in the Netlibrary had a download time of 3 hours and 57 minutes. (A colleague said, "I could probably read the book in that amount of time!")

I chose a much shorter book to practice with: The Cat in the Hat. It downloaded quite well to my computer, but I couldn't get the e-audiobook to transfer to the flash drive or the MP3 player. Tried another short book. Had the same problem.

It is much easier for me to use Books on Cd. I can take the discs wherever I need them and play them in a cd player. If necessary, I can also download them to my pre-Millenium computer via Music Match Jukebox or Windows Media Player. It is cumbersome (and probably a copyright violation), but it takes a lot less time than downloading from NetLibrary!

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