I've been working with books on Project Gutenburg since I was an undergrad. I had a really cool class that was designed to be advanced math for english majors and we got to use some really awesome software to analyze texts. And I got my texts from Project Gutenburg because they were, full, complete and already typed into the computer.
That isn't to say that I read any of those texts. I just copied them and pasted them into the program.
I have a NetLibrary account because MCPL subscribes to them and I thought it would be a good idea. After spending one extremely frustrating afternoon trying to download (and then find and play) an audiobook on NetLibrary about 2 and a half years ago, I haven't been back.
For the sake of my CEUs, I returned to NetLibrary.
It seems that the only ebooks available are Cliffsnotes. Eh. I'm not a huge fan.
Oh, but wait! Here is an ebook of Robin Hood! I guess you can't just browse through the ebooks, but search for specific books. (Funnily enough, if you look closely, you'll see that this comes to NetLibrary from Project Gutenburg.)
That isn't to say that I read any of those texts. I just copied them and pasted them into the program.
I have a NetLibrary account because MCPL subscribes to them and I thought it would be a good idea. After spending one extremely frustrating afternoon trying to download (and then find and play) an audiobook on NetLibrary about 2 and a half years ago, I haven't been back.
For the sake of my CEUs, I returned to NetLibrary.
It seems that the only ebooks available are Cliffsnotes. Eh. I'm not a huge fan.
Oh, but wait! Here is an ebook of Robin Hood! I guess you can't just browse through the ebooks, but search for specific books. (Funnily enough, if you look closely, you'll see that this comes to NetLibrary from Project Gutenburg.)
Okay, so I got a little carried away with talking about the books you can read online. Since this is about audio books, I suppose I should talk about the audio side.
This time my experience was a lot better. I especially liked the box at the bottom of the page:
I guess they heard that people were getting frustrated.
Anyway, I did get to download a Robin Hood audio book, too. (I am so on a Robin Hood kick ever since watching the BBC's series.) I'm looking forward to running it on my little netbook as I walk on my treadmill.
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