#22 & #23
We have been using audio books for many years, as would most libraries. The most obvious use is for sight impaired clients, or those with other learning difficulties. In fact my association extends back to the 70s when I was working as an OT. We had the most complex tapes that came from the ‘Talking Book Library’ that kept reversing on themselves. You needed to be a rocket scientist to work them out. So cassette tapes, CDs, via an Mp3 player or any other of the formats available these days are sooooo easy.
E-books I have grown to love when I thought I wouldn’t. I will still collect hard copies of my favourites, but how many things do we read and discard – all that crime fiction for instance. As a keen traveller, both commuting and overseas, the e-book provides the perfect solution to the weight problem. And speaking of weight, what a good idea to put all the school text books onto an e-reader so that overloaded schoolbag that causes scoliosis in young backs can become a thing of the past.
I would love to see a standardisation of format so the reading devise would then not necessarily be restrictive.
I have been following with interest the debate between publishers and libraries on the logistics of ‘lending’ e-books and will wait with bated breath for the final solution.
Of other downloadable media, the most obvious to me being music, I think the biggest issue is copyright in all its complexities.
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