[Web4lib] RE: Overdrive

[Tracey.Reed at myClearwater.com]

Thanks to all who responded about Overdrive.  I have some of the same concerns and questions, so there's no definitive answer to what we're doing yet.  

We seem to have a high theft rate of our CDs, so the audio seems more interesting to us at the moment.  One of my major concerns is the hoops that must be jumped through (conversion of files, etc.) to get them to play on iPods.  Granted, we have the same problems now with Overdrive's audiobooks (we seem to have more patrons with iPods than with regular mp3 players), and I'm not sure adding to it by adding an additional format would be beneficial at the moment.  Especially when our public PCs don't have iTunes installed so that people can put them on iPods.

I really appreciate your insight.

-t
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Tracey Reed
Clearwater Public Library System
tracey.reed at myclearwater.com
727.562.4970 x5188
www.myclearwater.com/cpl
"If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then words are the doorbells of the mind." -Josh Wilson, Australian journalist, The Weekend Australian, 2002