Week 12 e-audio and NetLibrary

I had no problem searching for or downloading an e-audio book in the Overdrive Media console.  I downloaded Angel Falls by Nora Roberts and then I burned the first part to a cd so I could listen to it in the car and it works!  I listen to recorded books a lot of the time while I do other things.  I have noticed though that there are no page breaks or chapter breaks in the recorded cd so you have to fast forward to find where you left off.  There were lots of titles to choose from but I found it better to just browse rather than do a specific search - you’re OK if you read all the popular titles or classics - but the more unusual titles are not there.  Overdrive even puts a shortcut on your desktop for easy access.

I loved searching through NetLibrary as there are more options.  It would be especially useful for research as you can open up to 5 titles at once and once you have an account you can make notes for the pages you read and see the full bibliographic information.  In the e-book section I looked up gardening and came up with some interesting choices but they can only be read on-line.  However, my first choice of an e-audio book was a Dean Koontz title and it said that my libraries copies were all in use and did I want to place a reserve.  I looked further and tried to download Alanna: the first adventure by Tamara Pierce - it said it was doing this but then there was nothing to indicate its progress so I just waited awhile and then went into my Windows media player but didn’t find it so I will have to try again.  I recommend going through the on-line guided tours on how to use both of these utilities.  NetLibrary has an RSS link at the bottom of it’s demonstration home page.

Well, I have tried to download several titles from NetLibrary but everytime I choose one it says that my libraries copies are all in use.  According to the chart we were sent this is not supposed to happen.  I did start to download one as I said earlier but it never showed up in my Media player.