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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

24 Things - Digital Downloads @ your library

Well, there was good and bad.

The searches on ebook/eaudio website was relatively painless. I was disappointed, however, that I could not easily find, on the site, a way to narrow the subjects down by format. I had to slog through, looking at titles and then if they were the format I wanted. There may be a way to do it, but it wasn't apparent or intuitive. This is a negative in my book.

Also, and this as been a gripe for a long time, I have never quite worked my head around why digital editions can be "checked out". That's the point of digital, right, to make them more available. So why limit the number of copies. I'm sure there's a very good reason, to someone, somewhere.

Anyway....Listening to the audiobook on Overdrive was simplicity. I didn't even have a problem with the Overdrive player. Yay. On the other hand, the Adobe Digital Editions would do nothing with the PDF book I downloaded. Wouldn't open it, wouldn't acknowledge it, nothing. Wouldn't let me update it without Systems assistance, so I didn't bother. Easy to get, impossible to use. Not impressed by the PDF books.

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