#22 (WEEK 9) eBOOKS and AUDIO

So, I mentioned audio books in my last podcast. I just love them. The Free Library of Philadelphia, as well as the Montgomery County Library System, has audio books available for free. However, you can't use Macs or ipods. All of the computers, both desk tops and laptops, in the school library are macs. A large number of the computers in Philadelphia schools are Macs and it's a travesty that this resource is not available to our students.

I did explore the World EBook Fair's site for free downloads from the Gutenberg Project. The amount of resources available is amazing. Actually, I looked at the World's Ebook and found that the ones I checked out weren't printable and needed an authorization as well. Next, I looked at the Internet Archive resource. I searched for Dicken's Great Expectations since this is the summer reading for seniors at my school. It seems that this has to be read online (?) as I didn't see a way to download it, especially since the pages were from an actual book. Then I explored the eBooks About Everything site. This site contained ebooks for sale and the prices are more than the $14.95 I pay for my Audible.com subscription. There were audio books there that are not available on audible.com such as James McBride's newest title. Lastly, I selected imslp which is a music site for sheet music. I chose to look for Chopin (no specific reason) and not only is sheet music available, but there were links to Wikipedia and a list of all of his works.

These are all awesome web sites for different reasons.