Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

I looked up items on audiobooks, ebooks, music and videos. I wold be interested in downloading Iris Johanson's Pandora's Daughter (audiobook), T Myers's Larceny and Old Lace (ebook) and A Celtic Celebration (music).

In viewing the three sites I liked that HCPL highights new items and that book covers are shown. HCPL (as does Wowio) provides synopsis of the book and in the ebooks provides part of the first chapter. This allows the person the opportunity to see if the ebook is really something they want to take the time to download. LibriVox has a system where you have to search a title/author/genre/subject. When looking for titles by Louisa May Alcott, I spelled May as Mae. 0 titles were available.

Wowio has a format similar to HCPL. HCPL and Wowio show what can be available. Wowio's homepage has a large section with changing titles/genre. Both seem more user-friendly than LibriVox per example regarding Louisa May Alcott.

HCPL 's homepage provides serveral ways to access the titles in the various media. Of course, a huge advantage of HCPL is that it offers several forms of media. LibriVox offers only audiobooks, and Wowio only ebooks.

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