Originally Posted by justflyingin
Originally Posted by Stitchnripper
I use the ipod feature on my iphone while I quilt to listen to audiobooks - and there is a free app called overdrive where you can get audiobooks directly from your library onto your device free, once you register your library card.
This is what I do. I have a 32 gig mp3 player (not ipod) and use it often. A book ranges from 50 mb to 250 mb depending on how many cds are in it.
They've already done the work for you. Depending on where you live, of course. Do you have a library card?
I just checked. You live in St. Paul.
Here is the link. You will not need to BUY books.
http://sppl.lib.overdrive.com/D5EFD0...en/Default.htm
Just go get a library card if you don't have one and then register on the website link I sent you. You'll have to look around the site a bit.
I HIGHLY recommend this method. You just check out the books and listen to them and then delete them from your mp3 player. Simple. Really.
Here in Rochester MN we can also download directly to our MP3 Players - mine is an IPod, have the largest capacity and hundreds of songs, images of family and my quilts, plus 25 books I purchased on it, and still room to add more. At this time I don't think I'll buy more books since I wnet to the class at our library to find out how to handle the download process. I've listened to lots of books I never would have dreamed I'd be interested in, because I never have time to just sit and read a book with my eyes - lots of time to "read with my ears" as I clean house, drive, make quilt blocks, and do free motion quilting. This is my 2nd Ipod, the first died; I couldn't believe how much I missed it!