More about Digital Books

Just to keep the options going, here is another interesting service for getting digital audio resources for your school.

Simply Audiobooks has the option to rent, buy, download, and listen! What I particularly liked is the option to collect yourself a FREE download each month.

I grabbed free download of The Art of War, just to test the quality of this service out. I found quite a few relevant resources, though pricing is always a big question.

Managing the copyright labyrinth seems easy with this supplier.

Another interesting article is Downloading Books with iPods, from TechLearning.

Using 'librarything' for book talks

This was posted on LM_NET today. I have been using Librarything to display sets of books for the students, but I really think this is a good one because we can both tag and store book talks, but we can also share with each other.

'I'm excited to share that LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/ has become a useful tool for me to catalog my book talks. I type the book talk in the comments field. I'm also able to tag a book according to the grade levels I would talk to about it. So, for example, if a teacher asks me to do book talks for her 6th grade classes, I can click on the tag cloud for 6th grade and see only those books. LibraryThing, which is free, provides many ways to customize and organize your collection (or book talks). If you'd like to get an idea of how this works, here is the link to the booktalks I have cataloged so far. I'm still in the process of entering them. http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Davinna (Click on Display Style 'D' if you aren't seeing the Comments/book talks)'

(Davinna Artibey is TL at Denver Center for International StudiesDenver Public Schools, CO)

Enjoy. Jan