Thing 22: Downloadable Audiobooks

I know something about Overdrive and NetLibrary since we add MARC records for those titles to our online catalog. So, I decided to investigate Project Gutenberg which I knew by name only. I was amazed to read that "tens of thousands of volunteers" have contributed to the project. I tried searching for an older, little known title, and bingo. A girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter is a book that my mother-in-law talked about reading as a girl. I was able to find it, and the download from ibiblio took only a few seconds. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Gutenberg also includes The Sheet Music Project for which volunteers have digitized public domain sheet music for study and performance.