Up until this week, I have only listened to audiobooks on CD, usually in the car, but occasionally at home while knitting. Last week, desiring to listen to an audiobook that Multnomah County Library (MCL) only had as a downloadable audiobook, I decided to download the OverDrive Media Console so I could listen to Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger.
It was incredibly easy and completely wonderful. This feels like one pod those life changing tech moments. I’ve been scouring the MCL catalog for others I can download. Here’s the downer part: I can;t download it onto my school laptop or iPad because it requires an administrator’s password. No one at y school has one, so I have to wait until the right authority is present and gives me permission.
I’m listening to Etiquette & Espionage for the HUB Challenge, so I’ll talk more about it on my next check-in.
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Overdrive also lets you get books from your local library onto either Kindle Fire or Nook HD devices and download epub format books from online stores (like Smashwords) into your kindle fire 🙂