January 05, 2004
4.500 Talking Books at the Library
After reading the Philip K. Dick book Martian Time-Slip I decided to see what else my Local Library had by him and was happy to find the short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale available as part of the Caedmon Short Story Collection book on CD. I have not gotten to the Dick story yet (on CD #2 of 6 as of this morning) but have been delighted by the four stories that have been read thus far (The Diamond Necklace by Guy De Maupaussant, An Occurrence At owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, Tobermory by Saki and A Painful Case by James Joyce). So delighted that I decided to see what other collected short stories the library might have. I followed a link from the Caedmon title for a by-subject search for 'Talking book collection - Fiction' thinking I might get a few more titles to choose from. What I found to my surprise was a treasure of 4,508 titles! This far exceeds the (at the time) 1,500 DVD titles referenced in Film Roar: 1,447 DVDs in the Multnomah County Library Collection and Film Roar: 37% Libary DVD Titles Watched. For the DVD titles I took the time to copy, screen-by-screen, each screen full of titles into an excel spreadsheet for later sorting. I am not sure how to best approach the audio books (I have tried browsing for favorite authors but found that few of the authors I know and like have audio books in the stacks) but am definitely motivated to tap into this resource.
Posted by Leopoldo at January 5, 2004 02:40 PM | TrackBack
