Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Week 10!!!

Ok, winding down here. I did download a book, but I wasn't all that impressed with the process. First of all, I couldn't seem to find an easier way to search what was available. There seemed to just be one list, many pages long to laboriously sift through. No way to narrow the search by interest, author or whatever. I suppose unless you did a hit and miss search in the regular catalog, hoping perhaps there was a downloadable version of the works you are interested in, (sounds time consuming). Next challange was, once I did select one, which was '100 Greatest Poems: Read By the Original Authors' (or something to that effect), that while it was neat to hear them read their own works (we are talking OLD stuff from decades ago), there was no table of contents, or way to see what (in this case WHO) was included. For example, I wanted to browse WHAT authors were in there, since I had limited time to listen, and I was hoping to hear certain ones. They may have been in there, and you are able to fast forward, but no way to tell who, or where to forward to to hear that section. Hit and miss again. Maybe it would have been different with a different type of book? I had the most fun with the visualizations you can choose from to accompany the vocals. There was a very large selection of those, you can even play with the colors and such.
As for how I will use my MP3? Mostly for music I imagine and possibly for a book depending on the situation. I'd give that another try. I am just thrilled to be getting one!!!

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