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Audio ebook
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Definition[edit]
Recordings of books in an electronic format.
Directory[edit]
Libraries that are circulating or doing other great things with audio ebooks:
Individual Libraries[edit]
Individual libraries, libraries within the same university library system, or public library county branch system -- and not members of the consortia groups defined below.
- Brooklyn (NY) Public Library OverDrive
- Burlington County (NJ) Library System OverDrive
- Clarence Mitchell Library (Highland Community College, Illinois) - has been circulating Audible content for years
- County of Los Angeles Public Library offers dowloadable audio books through NetLibrary.
- Dakota County Library (MN) netLibrary
- Darien Library (CT) has been circulating Audible content for two years, and now offers downloadable audio books on both *OverDrive and netLibrary/Recorded Books since March 2005
- Denver Public Library(Denver, CO) offers downloadable audiobooks through OverDrive
- Fairfax County Public Library (VA) Recorded Books
- Fairfax County (VA) Public Library OverDrive and Recorded Books
- Gwinnett County Public Library - in addition to books on CD, GCPL offers downloadable audiobooks through OverDrive
- Kansas City (MO) Public Library netLibrary
- King County (WA) Library System OverDrive and Recorded Books
- Memorial Hall Library in Andover, MA Audible.com
- Montgomery County (MD) netLibrary
- National Library Board Singapore OverDrive
- New York (NY) Public Library OverDrive
- Phoenix (AZ) Public Library OverDrive
- Salt Lake (UT) Public Library Recorded Books
- San José (CA) Public Library & University Library OverDrive
- San Francisco Public Library (San Francisco, CA) offers downloadable audio books through NetLibrary.
- Santa Monica Public Library (CA) netLibrary
- Seattle Public Library: Digital Books Collection - Seattle Public Library offers audio ebooks through Overdrive
- Seattle Public Library OverDrive
- South Huntington Public Library (New York) - circulating Audible titles on iPod shuffles
- Washington County Library (MN) netLibrary
- White Plains (NY) Public Library OverDrive
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Gordon Library (Worcester, MA) - circulating Audible titles on iPod shuffles, Muvos, and Otis devices; read more at eAudio FAQ
Consortia[edit]
Groups of libraries broader than the individual institutions defined above, such as state-wide consortia.
- California Library Consortium OverDrive
- CLEVNET - Located in Cleveland, Ohio, the first consortium to circulate downloadable audio ebooks that can be saved to the patron's device and played offline; provides titles from publishers such as Brilliance and Blackstone through Overdrive
- Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority OverDrive
- ListenOhio - the first consortium to circulate audio ebooks; provides 2,500+ titles from Audible
- ListenIllinois - a consortium of 30 Illinois libraries that works with ListenOhio to circulate Audible content; LI will be adding OverDrive and netLibrary/Recorded Books titles
- Maryland's Digital eLibrary Consortium - a consortium of Maryland public libraries to circulate audio and print ebooks from Overdrive
- Metronet (MI) Library Consortium OverDrive
- Michigan Library Consortium OverDrive
- Mid-Ohio Library Digital Initiative OverDrive
- North Carolina Digital Library OverDrive
- Ohio eBook Project OverDrive
