Thing 22, Week 9

I did a few searches on the Gutenberg site. I had already used it a couple of times and it is quite impressive. Of course, a lot of currently copyrighted books aren't on there but it is a great help with the classics. I wish I had gotten to this "thing" earlier because I see that on World e Book Fair they had open access for the month of July. I did browse lists of titles though but I was still finding that recent popular titles are not in the mix even when you have to pay for them. The Internet Archive site was another interesting place to visit. I liked what they are trying to do but the site was a little too commercial looking for a "library". I would like to spend some more time browsing the site before I make a real judgement though. I noticed that they do have an RSS feed as well so I will probably add that to my iGoogle page to remind me to keep looking.

We have not added any purchased e-books to our catalog yet, but I would like to be able to experiment with them this yearI haven't seen much discussion about them on the TLA listserv yet but I haven't checked the archives. I'm sure there is some stuff on LMNet. The LibriVox site would be great, again for the classics not anything new., to use with our learning challenged students who need the audio versions of their assigned books. It would be very helpful for them to be able to downloand the formats to their MP3 players. Another great application with some of the other sites I browsed would be the ability to download a book for research purposes that may be out of print and not locally available.