The Overdrive Digital Media Guided Tour - covering how to select and download Overdrive audiobooks - was very helpful. CCPL has been offering Overdrive to patrons for a while now, but it was very useful to go through the podcast (there it is again!) tour. I'm looking forward to using my MP3 player to download books.
Project Gutenberg has been around for a long time, and its good to know that audio-books are available here. On the day that I looked at the list of top 100 picks the Manual of Surgery by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson was #1 with 649 downloads the day before. Another interesting one was #5 on that list: Jokes For All Occasions by Anonymous with 365 downloads. A co-worker commented that maybe since it's summertime, kids are downloading jokes. If so, kids know about Project Gutenberg as well as YouTube! I also found video clips (see pictures, moving). I looked at a clip of the tests done by the Manhattan Project and a clip of the landing of Apollo 11.
Id like to come back to both sites and find some good books to listen to.
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