Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Audiobooks

Well, I'm a kitty connoisseur of books, so I tried both sites, Netlibrary and Overdrive. Searching was simple on both sites, but Overdrive was a bit nicer due to its 'browse' feature where you could look through a few categories just to see what they had (although there were no categories for 'catnip' or mice'-shocking!). Both sites seemed to have pretty slim pickings and we won't have to worry about them replacing hard copy books at the library any time soon. I also found that unless you liked mainstream authors like James Patterson and Meg Cabot you might be lucky to find even 1 title by an author you like. I was surprised at the lack of classic author titles from writers such as Jules Verne and Emily Bronte, so I had very little luck locating Reading List type books, so it's not a very good option if all the copies are checked out and a kitten needs it for school. Other than that I think Overdrive had a bit more to offer, having different types of items like movies as well as audio books and a lot of the titles could be burnt to cd as well, which looked like a nice feature. I tried to check out a random title, but my library account is one of the many in the system that have the 'Database Error' block on it, which prevents me from checking out titles on Overdrive. I'll have to yell at mommy to make me a new account pronto.

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