audiotogo is a service which in my humble opinion, is over priced and not for a lot of ppl. i only did it because I didn't have access to a computer at the time and i didn't have a tape machine from the library. It is a paid rental service service. I had a coupon where I spent $21 per month to rent up to three books at a time not to exceed 9 books per month. The formats you choose from are cassettes, CD or a single MP3 disk. I've been meaning to cancel but I couldn't find one of the books and didn't want to cancel and pay the price of the book. It was a huge book with 12 CD's so I'm thinking the price would have been pretty steep because they charge a $5 processing fee and another fee and then the list price of the book. Since I kept sending books back even though I had the one, they'd keep sending two books at a time. You can try the service for a month I think before they start charging and in that month you can rent up to 9 books. The trick is to make sure you return everything by the 30th day or they will start charging you. They have a lot to choose from. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi, Traci, what is audiotogo? I've got something called unabridged.lib.overdrive.com. What you do is check out a book or two from the web site and download it on to your computer. You keep it either for a week or two weeks at the most, then it's deleted from the computer because it has some kind of time stamp on it. Regards, Kim. -----Original Message----- From: traci [mailto:season@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 8:36 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloadedI'm with you on the whole unnecessary book thing. When I got my new computerback in October, I didn't redwonload what I had previously on the old one. Now that I've gotten used to the idea that the books are going to remain there for my downloading pleasure, I'm not apt to go downloading ten or twenty books just because I think I will read them asap. I looked at my history and since February of this year to this date, I have downloaded a whopping total of six books. So go figure. Now how many books have I readsince Feb? No clue. I do audible, audiotogo, I purchase books and scan them when its something I really want and I borrow books from the library here. Ijust got a new machine ordered for me today so I'm really excited about that! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Loran Bailey" <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:57 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: books downloadedBack when I could see I tended to buy more books than I could read. When I saw one I tended to think that if I passed it up I might never come across it again. However, I just can't see downloading more books than I could ever possibly read. In the case of Bookshare, BARD and all the other on line sites from which I can download books, they are always there. They are not being taken away. I can use these sources as my own personal library and so I regard them as my own personal library. Downloading a book is like taking it down from the shelf of mypersonal library.Deleting it is like placing it back on the shelf because when and if I need it again I can always take it down, that is, download, it again. Taking more books off the shelf than I could possibly read would be bad housekeeping. It would be very messy. That is why I download a book when I am ready to read it and I am ready to read it when I have finished the last one. Hoarding something that is freely available wheneveryou want it does not quite make sense to me. _ _ _ "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce themost - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and mostmenial tasks, have the least." - Eugene V. Debs The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "traci" <season@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] books downloaded Hi all Wow! I am glad to discover that I am not the only one who downloads more than I may ever read. When I joined bookshare over two years ago, it was only a dream to be able to read books online since I had done the wholeebook disaster. I can actually laugh now when I think of all the differentsites and programs I tried using to read Addicted by Zane. Never did read that one online! But once I got the library to help prove my disability and I got everything straight, I downloaded Ramona by Helen Hunt. I read this book when I was in Jr. High over a miserably cold and rainy Easter vacation and found the love story so great, so tragic, so rememberable that when I was thinking of a title to look for, it popped into my head. Who could forget Ramona and her Alessandro? The first book I read that I downloaded was Guilty by Karen Robards. To this date, I just did a check and I discovered I have downladed 156 titles. I even reread Little Women just because I could and yes, I cried when Beth seccummed to scarlet fever. Speaking of Scarlet! Hmm. Maybe its time I reread Gone With The Wind, my all time favorite classic! To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. 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