Sunday Salon: One Thing I Love About my Library? Preloads!
I am currently reading Amy Tan's, The Kitchen God's Wife and it is excellent! I love getting the preloaded audio books from my library. Does every one's library have these? It is the size of a deck of cards and lighter and you just have to plug in your headphones and hit play. No need for an ipod or to put it onto your computer and then transport it into a different format to work on your MP3 player, it fab.This is what they look like:
It really is a great idea. So far I have listened to two of them, last week I listened to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, before that John Green's Paper Towns and this week I loving The Kitchen God's Wife. For my little ones I checked out The Island of Blue Dolphins, and Charlie and the Chocolate factory two books I enjoyed as a kid. Our library gets them through Playaway, and the quality is good, you can even mess with the settings and speed up the reading if you want. They are marketing to the military, schools and libraries, places where more than one person would benefit from the usage of the pre-loads, I tell you....I can't get enough!
I have enjoyed the online download audiobooks that our library has, but these are even way more fun!
What about your library? Do they embrace new technology or is your library slower to accommodate the changing times? Tell me something you love about your local library, I'd love to hear it!
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August 9th, 2009 - 17:13
For being out in the middle of nowhere, our library has a lot of the “cutting edge” technology, including Playaway.
I thought it was neat, but I’m not one for audiobooks, I think. It takes too long to get there when I could get there on my own, I guess.
But children’s books like Charlotte’s Web, one of my favorites, that would be cool. Most of ours, I think, are crime fiction and the like.
August 9th, 2009 - 17:45
I love audiobooks. I like them for while I do the dishes, knit or do other chores around the house, they make me actually look forward to the chores!!
yes, and the kids ones are amazing, they are great for kids who don’t read yet, or adults who love reminiscing their favourites from many years ago.
August 9th, 2009 - 17:59
I love audiobooks too (I have a long commute to work). One of our library branches has these, and I haven’t really paid much attention to them. Maybe I will need to take another look.
August 9th, 2009 - 19:07
I like them because I don’t have to remember to delete them from my ipod or mess at all, they are way cool…do check them out!
August 9th, 2009 - 20:30
I remember when Playaway tried to market those pre-loads to the general public. I thought it was a wasteful single-use device. I think that marketing them to libraries and other groups where they will be passed around is a much better idea. I wish my library had them because I hate when I get to disc 3 of an audiobook from the library only to find that it is scratched.
August 9th, 2009 - 23:06
I haven’t heard of these before. I agree with Dani’s point about scratched discs – I have had that happen before with library audiobooks.
August 10th, 2009 - 02:04
This looks great for people who like to listen to audiobooks. I will be happy if my library has something other than Nora Roberts and Sidney Sheldon and ofcourse Mills and Boon’s :)
August 10th, 2009 - 12:10
I’m not really sure… I have a hard time getting into audiobooks, so I usually don’t look at them. It sounds like a very cool idea, though!