A few years ago I was delighted to learn that CCL had added downloadable books as an option in our catalog. A new experience for me, I downloaded a Judy Picoult novel onto an mp3 player and set about listening while working on a project. I loved it. Problem was, I was not able to bookmark the page when I wanted to stop. I would have had to start at the beginning again. After 4 hours of listening, that was not something I wanted to do. This, I was told, was a problem being experienced by many.
Being disheartened by my first experience, I have not looked into OverDrive until this exercise. Now I’m excited again, and hopeful that, since the books are in parts, the same bookmarking problem will not arise. I’ve taken out an e-book and look forward to downloading it to a CD so I can listen in the car. (Guess I’ll do that from home.) There are many other books I would like to listen to and am pleased that I can listen to a portion of the book before actually taking it out. I was a little surprised, however, at how many authors/titles I searched for that are not in the catalog. Perhaps they’ll be coming.
