Overdrive

Overdrive Media Console is downloaded...and with surprisingly few problems. Actually -- no problems -- imagine that :-) And I have checked out and downloaded an audio book. It wasn't a book I normally would have chosen -- because I didn't find my favorite author available. But it's a book I'd have read if I was stuck somewhere where the selection were limited -- which, of course, it is. But the process of downloading seems pretty easy so that's good.

I'm not much of an audio book listener in general... I find myself distracted and the next thing I know the story has moved on without me. But for those who need/like them this would be a good service. For some reason my first thought of audio book customers are those with vision problems... which made me wonder if those with vision problems could easily read all the instructions for downloading ... but I'm sure there are ways they can.

I took a look at the music offerings. Other than the classical, I didn't find much I liked. Seemed to be a lot of, to me, obscure stuff. But that's probably the nature of the "rights" situation. I imagine the more mainstream artists aren't as interested in this sort of set up...maybe not financially logical at this time. I was happy they had the excerpts you can play... some that "looked" good didn't sound good when I played the excerpt. It'll be interesting to see how the world of downloadable audio evolves over time.