April 1st, 2008 Brian Herzog
Hot on the heels of its announcement of mp3-based and iPod-compatible audiobooks, Overdrive is introducing a new product line: Large Print Audiobooks.
Designed to cater to the elderly and vision-impaired library patrons (just like our print large print collections), OverDrive has contracted with various large print book vendors to convert their catalogs into large print audio versions.
I think it is great that vendors aren’t always trying to cast wide nets to scoop up as much profit as possible, but instead are providing products based on the needs of our smaller patron groups.
The only catch is that, like large print books, the audiobook files will be larger than their normal versions. Also, larger headphones are required, too, to accommodate the extra sound.
Still, it’s great. You can keep up with more announcements on the OverDrive News page.
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November 29th, 2007 Brian Herzog
For Thanksgiving, I drove from Massachusetts to my hometown in Ohio. It’s about a 12-hour drive, each way, and I found that 12 hours in the car means different things to different people.
Most people reacted with, “ugh, that sounds miserable” or “I could never sit in the car that long.”
I suppose I am lucky that I am an excellent sitter, but I also don’t mind driving distances like that at all. I enjoy traveling and seeing the country (though it is unfortunate that not much can be seen at 80 65 mph). But this trip also meant 24 hours of audiobooks.
For this trip, I listened to The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, and also Washington Schlepped Here, by Christopher Buckley. The last one was kind of walking tour of Washington, D.C., with history, humor and current politics all blended together, and the first two are the two books that come after Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass. I was thoroughly entertained for the entire trip, and although I didn’t know much about The Golden Compass before, now I’m really looking forward to the movie.
But do you know what I like best about audiobooks?
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