I'm not an audio-book listener, but I noticed this and pass it on to those of you who are. (Maybe this is standard audio book practice, but it was news to me.)
Minneapolis Library patrons can download free audio books, i.e. don't have to make a trip to the library to check out the CD. From the library's web site:
With the ability to download books from the web through Minneapolis Public Library’s website, commuters can find new and different content 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for their portable listening devices.
Hundreds of titles are narrated by professional actors with years of stage and screen experience and can be downloaded with either radio-quality or CD-quality files. You can listen on any desktop, laptop or portable device supporting Windows Media Player version 9 and above. Users can also transfer favorite titles to a wide range of portable devices, including portable music players, portable media centers, Pocket PCs and even some smartphone devices.
In a few seconds of Googling, I see that lots of libraries offer an audio book download option, but you must first be a patron of theirs. This creates a geographical restriction on what could otherwise be non-geographically-restricted dissemination of audio books.
But I also see that lots of paid audiobook downloads are dirt cheap, so maybe getting them free isn't that big a deal.
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