Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Overdrive

This was the first time I've been able to successfully access and download from this site, since high speed is not available where I live. It appeared difficult to download the program on this computer since I kept getting the message that I had to close out everything before completing the download. Finally I just tried to download a book and it worked. Frankly, I didn't find my favorite authors nor subjects (gardening and carpentry.) However, on a whim, I checked out my most favorite book, "What Do You Care what Other People Think? by Richard Feynman and it had just been added today!
I'm not a personal fan of audio books, since I tend to read much faster than just listening so I won't be downloading books in the near future. However, at least I can now explain to people how it works, at least patrons who live where they have high speed Internet access. I didn't download any videos or music, but I assume it would be similar. One of our elementary school teachers tells me that he downloads some of the children's books to play in class occasionally. He is very pleased with the service.

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