Thursday, November 29, 2007

Week 9: eBooks

I looked at Wowio, LibriVox and the HCPL eBooks section. LibriVox was by far my favorite.

Wowio does not allow for anonymous emails such as gmail, yahoo, or hotmail. For most people, these are the only options available to them. Otherwise you can scan in your driver's license or give a credit card number. Neither one of those options sit too well with me.

The HCPL eBooks section has a lot of materials. Check out is easy and how to download the things you need to run it are fairly explanatory. However, and this is my biggest complaint, there doesn't seem to be an option for Mac users. Though this is a wonderful option for audio books, it leaves out people like me who only have Mac computers at home.

LibriVox has nothing that needs downloading and doesn't seem that it requires you use a PC only. An interesting aspect of it is that anyone can be a reader. Of course the drawback is that all the books read there are all in the public domain, so there will be no current books.

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