29 June 2007

#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight ")


Podcasts:
The ABC Radio has a host of regular Podcasts.
774 ABC Melbourne invites you to put on your walking shoes, turn on your MP3 player and discover Melbourne’s secrets with the ABC Melbourne Podtours: Eat, Drink Melbourne, Death, Dirt & Disease and Showbiz, Sexy Spectacles and Sideshows.
Whether you are a visitor to the city or a born and bred local, you’ll be surprised at the stories you'll uncover in Melbourne’s hidden lanes and historical buildings.
Join Derek Guille, Jon Faine and Red Symons as they guide you through the sights, sounds and smells of Melbourne town with the free audio tours that you can download to your MP3 player.



Downloadable eAudiobooks are becoming more popular in library situations.
Subscription services such as Netlibrary and Overdrive enable libraries to purchase audio files, so library members can download them onto their mp3 players.
The beauty of this is that after the loan period expires, the audio file is deleted from the mp3player.
Wow...NO OVERDUES OR LIBRARY FINES !

The Net Library Link from the '23 Things' Blog is unavailable, please use this Fantastic alternative.

For this discovery exercise, you merely need to familiarize yourself a bit with the structure of the World EBook fair site (a free siteDownloadable eAudiobooks site)

Take a look around and locate a few titles of interest.

Discovery Resource:

Discovery Exercise:

Click on the eAudiobooks link and explore some of the titles

These are FREE downloads here from the Gutenberg Project.
If you have Real Player or Windows Media Player installed you can listen right there or download to an MP3 device

Interesting links can also be found at the


Create a blog post about your findings.

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