Thursday, February 03, 2005

Audiobooks won't drown you

I am back from Montana--you know, there is no snow west of Minneapolis. It was clear yesterday as we flew into morning, east from Helena, and all across Montana and North Dakota--no snow at all. This is not good.

On January 27, I blogged about my husband's audio reading habits and suggested it's time we all stop saying digital books won't replace print ones because you can't read them in the bathtub. One of our OCLC corporate librarians emailed me a funny close to this thought. Ginny wrote "A friend of ours writes very long, heavy books and he says he has a recurring dream that some woman gets into the tub with one of his books and dips it in the water without realizing it. The book soaks up the water until eventually it weighs her down and she drowns. And the family sues him!!"

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