Libraries checking out iPod shuffles
Wired News tells us that
South Huntington Public Library in Long Island, New York is lending out
iPod shuffles to its patrons. Yes, you read that correctly, you can check out an iPod shuffle,
loaded up with an audio book of course.
The library has 10 of the little guys in stock, and their patrons seem to be enjoying them. The best part of the whole story? An Apple solution is actually saving people money. Apparently Audio Books on CD can cost as much as $75, which seems ridiculous to me, whereas the downloaded versions run $15 to $25.
I am noticing a trend? Apple, the choice of the thrifty.
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Trevor said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Thanks for this, Scott. I teach college writing and literature classes, and have been using an iPod to supplement for the past five or six months now. I fashioned a longer post about it here:
http://home.comcast.net/~trevordodge/2005/03/education-on-shuffle-viva-la-ipod.html
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