I love audio books - especially on our 11 hour drive to the cottage in Canada. Or when I'm on the treadmill - I just can't exercise inside to mindless things like TV or music. And I also find audio books useful for dry nonfiction that I want to read but just can't bring myself to pick up on a regular basis. I often download them from the public library and I've been known to purchase them occasionally, too. I really want to purchase more of them (either through audible.com or maybe playaways) for school because we have so many books on tape that the teachers don't want to use...nobody has tape decks anymore. There seem to be more options for mp3s.
eBooks are a bit of a sticky wicket for me. We have a few reference books available through Gale Virtual Reference Library. The ability to search them like databases is definitely a bonus, but I think they are underutilized. I can see electronic textbooks and I love LibriVox for the classics, but I just don't see sitting down with a computer or a reader for long periods of time. I have concerns that our youth are going to be blind by the time they're 30 because of the amount of time they spend looking at and reading from tiny screens. Enough editorializing (although isn't that what blogging is all about?).
The audio and eBook resources listed on the SLL 2.0 site are fabulous and I added the one (Best Places to Get Free Books) that I didn't already know about to my del.icio.us page. I can't wait for the World eBook Fair this year for free access!
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