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An iPod Workaround for Audiobooks?

Staff -- Library Journal, 11/1/2005

Will library-loaned audiobooks ever be compatible with iPods? An October 1 session at the Library Information & Technology Association (LITA) forum led by Denver Public Library’s Michelle Jeske revealeda Rube Goldberg–like workaround. Once the audiobooks from OverDrive are downloaded, they can be burned to CDs, then reloaded into iTunes and then to iPods. Jeske told LJ that “I wouldn’t have brought it up except that someone in the audience mentioned it.” Like many of her colleagues, Jeske has an iPod. “None of us has gone to the trouble of ripping CDs so we could listen to audio ebooks on our iPods.” Says Steve Potash of OverDrive, “We only publish and instruct information for supported devices”—and the iPod is not a supported device.

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