Sunday Salon: One Thing I Love About my Library? Preloads!
Comments (8) 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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