This comes via engadget:
We know that small-town libraries have shed their image as fusty repositories of moldering encyclopedias and are now
high-tech temples of e-learning, but we were still impressed to find out that at least one library has come up with a
novel way to get teens into libraries: put audiobooks onto iPod Shuffles. We have it on good word that the South
Huntington Public Library in Suffolk County, New York, is doing just that. They apparently have a handful of Shuffles,
pre-loaded with books, and are planning to add more. Given the ongoing
Shuffle shortage (even Apple’s online store has a
two-week delay on shipping them), we’re surprised that the library has any at all to share; let’s hope for their sake
that borrowers don’t “forget” to return them.
Somebody at that library is thinking. One of my students came to school yesterday with a brand new iPod Shuffle. How cool would it be if I had audio content that I could give to her to check out? What if she were in one of my classes and was a struggling reader? If I could just take her over to my computer and upload the audio version of the book we were reading, that would be really handy.
It might also be a violation of copyright — but it’d still be a great tool if I could get around that somehow. Probably, someone out there already knows how. If so, could you share that info?
