ListenNJ is a great resource for those of you who love audio books.
Me? Can’t stand them, but I would recommend this to anyone appropriate.
This is an important step towards the idea of the “virtual library,” the idea(l) that one can get their library fix from anywhere at anytime, and not be restricted by our brick and mortar chains.
I mentioned in an earlier post how eReaders won’t be popular until their screens don’t have the harshness of a computer monitor, and instead give the softer feel of paper to look at. Ok, so I really said that they won’t become popular until they’re pre-loaded on our mobile devices, but this is an important point to!
I bring this point up because in the interim between posts, I was made aware of amazon.com’s Kindle. While $400 is a downright ludicrous price to sell it at, this is the exact step that needs to be taken.
Come rain or hail or wind or snow
I’m not going out to Flanders oh
There’s fighting in Dublin to be done
Let your sergeants and your commanders go
Let Englishmen fight English wars
It’s nearly time they started oh
I saluted the sergeant a very good night
And there and then we parted oh
