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Library allows digital audio-book downloads
In Warren, Ohio the public library is allowing their patrons to download digital copies of audio-books in an unabridged format so listeners can get the full "text" of the book they want to listen to. Listeners must have a valid library card to download the books, that patrons can listen to for 21 days. At that time the books erase themselves. There are currently 1100 titles in the library's archive available for download. To listen to the audio-books you have downloaded, you must have a Windows Media 9.0 or higher compatible device. The citizens of Warren will benefit from the library's advanced digital book-borrowing service, that should increase by about 30 titles a month. Here is proof that Libraries and the Internet are not enemies, or at least don't have to be. They compliment each other quite nicely in fact.