Audiobooks via Overdrive

I looked at Audiobooks through Overdrive through FCPL. When I first started working at the library, I was trained on ebooks and audiobooks available through NetLibrary and Overdrive, so I felt like I sort of knew what to expect. However, the last time I visited the site, I don't remember seeing any indication of whether the audiobook could be burned to CD or not. If you wanted to find this information, I feel like you had to pull up the record for each individual title. If this is a new feature, I think it's great! I saw that Pendragon Book 1: The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale is available as an audiobook through Overdrive AND it is possible to burn this to a CD.

I am a huge fan of audiobooks, and I can't imagine life without them! I'm glad that there are services available that make additional copies of popular audiobooks available to patrons. I also briefly glanced over the audiobooks available on Project Gutenberg, and I was floored to see that there is a pretty good selection of audiobook resources available. I was impressed that this site offered audiobooks in different languages. It is important to know about this site because they have a lot of the classics on audiobooks, and this would be useful to recommend to patrons (perhaps students) who need access to the classics for schoolwork. This is especially useful in the public library setting if a lot of high school students in the county are assigned to read the same title, and all of the circulating copies are unavailable. Having the knowledge to be able to turn patrons to the resources of Overdrive and Project Gutenberg will help us really target and meet user needs.