Thursday, June 3, 2010

Week 22, Take a look at the titles available on Overdrive or NetLibrary or Project Gutenberg and learn about downloadable audiobooks.

What do I know about Overdrive and Net Library? MCPL offer those services to our patrons to access from their homes. They are free to the members of Maryland's Digital eLibrary Consortium. Overdrive books; some titles are always available, but you may have to place holds on others. You can have 4 holds at a time. NetLibrary books; you may have 10 items checked out at one time. Every title is always available. Both offeres popular audio books.

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks, classic books, to read on your PC or other portable device. They are free in the United States because their copyright has expired. In 1980s this project was the only site on the Internet offereing full text books free of charge to anyone. Many libraries linked to this site on their webpage.

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