Seattle area libraries offer downloadable audio books, including Pride and Prejudice
The Seattle Times reports that King County’s library system allows patrons to download audiobooks to their home computers; patrons can then burn the audiobook to a CD or download it to an mp3 player to listen. The selections include Pride and Prejudice, as one lucky library patron discovered.
Jean Marston, who uses the Redmond library, said she had never listened to books on tape but was drawn to the new e-books because of the ease of downloading them. She just finished Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
“I like it because I don’t have a physical item I have to remember to return and no overdue worry,” Marston said. “I was blown away by the quality and am anxious to keep doing it. I got sucked in.”
We hope that more libraries begin to offer such a service!
(We suspect that the reporter is a trifle confused over the difference between e-books and audiobooks. E-books are generally understood to be text, read on a computer or handheld device. Audiobooks are spoken-word, whether delivered on recorded media, such as CDs or cassettes, or via download.)
January 31st, 2005 at 11:05 pm
King County, my home. We not only have dead, missing, and mystery voters, we have e-books and audio books too!
Love the library, hate the election department.