Overdrive

It's really a shame that Apple hasn't seen the light and gotten on board with these downloadable audiobooks. Since they have approximately 75% of the market, they are disenfranchising their customers.

I am not a big audiobook fan, my mind wanders too much but my husband likes them. We got a small Sandisk MP3 player just for books for him.

Podcasts

One of my favorite podcasts is NPR's Books.

"NPR book reviews, news and author interviews -- for people who love to read. The best of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other award-winning NPR programs."

NPR Books Podcast

YouTube and PowerPoint

For anyone who's ever had to do a PowerPoint presentation, or had to sit through a really bad one...

Web 2.0 "awards"

The very first award I looked at was the one under the "books" category (what did you expect??) and I was very surprised and disappointed to see it was a website for self-publishing. I know it is gaining in popularity, and maybe the site is fantastic, but to have a site like that beat out Worldcat (which got an honorable mention!) told me a lot about these awards. To me, they lost all credibility with that one award. It led me to wonder if these awards are bought and paid for. I have no way of knowing that, but I can't help but be suspicious.

ZOHO-HO-HO

ZOHO-HO-HO

 

Never heard of this before 23 things but I'm very happy I know about it now.  I've been working on a cookbook for my kids of all their favorite recipes.  My son lives in Tampa and I've got a Word file on my computer that I tried to share out with him via Google Docs - but Google Docs severely limits the size of Word documents that you can upload, and the document I want to share is over 200 pages long.  I had no trouble uploading an experimental document of 199 pages to Zoho Writer, although I haven't figured out yet how to delete it!  But at least I now have a way to share my son's favorite recipes with him via Zoho Writer.  And my daughter will be going off to college in a couple of years...

 

Wiki-bandwagon

I like wikis. Libraries should definitely be jumping on the wiki-bandwagon. User friendly, easy to maintain and change and grow, all the good stuff.

Here at SWC our readers' advisory group is working on a wiki we hope to share with the library eventually....we are only at the very early, planning stage right now. Will share when ready.

Wiki wikki wachee

So I checked out the PBCLS wiki and immediately found the "favorite books" page. I added a few of my favorites...okay, a dozen or so of my favorites. Very easy to do and oh yeah, I added the author to someone else's favorite, Gone with the Wind.