[elfwood]

Dordale,

You are right, eNYPL has almost 12000 e-books in the catalog, but if you run a search on these parameters

adobe ebooks/English/last 180 days
you'll see they've added only 85 titles

They've obviously changed the ratio of e-books to audiobooks in the last couple of years.

One thing about the collection that I find most aggravating is that they begin a series of books in the adobe format, then throw in a few volumes in audiobook format. So you may be able to get volumes 1 and 3, but not volume 2.

Another weakness is that many of the ebooks are things that can be found at other free sources--like Project Gutenberg US--old titles like those of Arthur Conan Doyle that are no longer under copyright. Using processing time and space for the latter seems like an utter waste to me.

Don't get me wrong, it's the best of its kind that I've yet found, I just wish they'd use a little most common sense in their collection development.

elfwood