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mmread · 11-20-2010, 01:05 AM

I was leaning towards the Aluratek because of the cost and I don't want to buy online.

I had put 2 audiobooks on request from the Digital library since late Sept that I am still waiting. They had burn to CD options which I was going to do originally but then I decided to go this route of ebook with MP3. The audiobooks are not MP3 but .wma files. So it seems the way to go on this is the Sansa way like most of you suggested above.

With reading all this info on "DRM" thingy, these audiobooks will most likely go away by the time I want to listen to them for my long drive vacation. Good thing we are not planning to drive anywhere for Thanksgiving because my audiobooks would not have been ready for me to download anyway.

So I checked to see about the books my husband would like to read. Most of these books were checked out. So it seems that if they are availbable now, it will be gone by the time of Cmas when he will have the chance to read it.

Then I happen to stumble across www.mobiles24.com. I guess these free mobile ebooks don't have a waiting period or a 3 week time limit. So maybe I should rely on my Epic (If I do get one for Cmas).

I didn't really check or understand how "hard" it could be to get any materials from the Digital Library. So now I am at a quandry if an ebook is really worth it. I can get the same "hard" copy readily available at the regular brick & mortar library than I can at the digital library site.

11-20-2010, 01:05 AM	#21
mmread Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 78 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	I was leaning towards the Aluratek because of the cost and I don't want to buy online. I had put 2 audiobooks on request from the Digital library since late Sept that I am still waiting. They had burn to CD options which I was going to do originally but then I decided to go this route of ebook with MP3. The audiobooks are not MP3 but .wma files. So it seems the way to go on this is the Sansa way like most of you suggested above. With reading all this info on "DRM" thingy, these audiobooks will most likely go away by the time I want to listen to them for my long drive vacation. Good thing we are not planning to drive anywhere for Thanksgiving because my audiobooks would not have been ready for me to download anyway. So I checked to see about the books my husband would like to read. Most of these books were checked out. So it seems that if they are availbable now, it will be gone by the time of Cmas when he will have the chance to read it. Then I happen to stumble across www.mobiles24.com. I guess these free mobile ebooks don't have a waiting period or a 3 week time limit. So maybe I should rely on my Epic (If I do get one for Cmas). I didn't really check or understand how "hard" it could be to get any materials from the Digital Library. So now I am at a quandry if an ebook is really worth it. I can get the same "hard" copy readily available at the regular brick & mortar library than I can at the digital library site.