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dreamshark*sigh* I went through this whole thing last year some time - finding the library website, typing in a library card number as long as my arm, downloading software, figuring out how to transfer downloaded audiofiles to iTunes, etc. It took about half a day, as I recall. I managed to check out some audio books, convert them to MP3s, and develop a procedure for transfering them onto my iPod Shuffle. To my surprise, once I arrived at a process that worked I had accidentally defeated the primitive copy protection, so I still have all those books I checked out and never finished listening to. *heh* I still listen to random chapters from Mark Twain's Roughing It when I fly.
However, since the last time I checked anything out the entire software platform has been radically changed. So I just spent the afternoon plowing through the audio-library trying to find something that didn't have a huge waitlist, downloading and installing piles of NEW software, and figuring out the completely different set of steps required to get audiobooks onto an iPod Shuffle. The audiobooks now download like lightning (possibly because of the new software platform, but more likely because my Internet connection is now almost 3 times faster than it was the last time I did this). However, the new methodology for transferring files to an iPod is UNBELIEVABLY slow. So in the end, I think it takes longer than it did before. And I'll bet the items expire this time, since I wasn't able to convert them to MP3s. Progress. Nothing like it.
My main Shuffle now contains the first chapter of a book called Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and an essay by Malcolm Gladwell. Another Shuffle, which I have renamed "AudioPad" has all 7 hours of Tunnel in the Sky, my favorite Heinlein juvenile. My iPhone has an E-book by Jack London. So now maybe I'll go to the gym, which is more or less what I was preparing to do when I started this project 3 hours ago.
In general, the new library website is easier to use than the old one, but some of the navigation is baffling. Do any of you library-savvy folks know how I can FIND the wishlist that I added all those things to???
However, since the last time I checked anything out the entire software platform has been radically changed. So I just spent the afternoon plowing through the audio-library trying to find something that didn't have a huge waitlist, downloading and installing piles of NEW software, and figuring out the completely different set of steps required to get audiobooks onto an iPod Shuffle. The audiobooks now download like lightning (possibly because of the new software platform, but more likely because my Internet connection is now almost 3 times faster than it was the last time I did this). However, the new methodology for transferring files to an iPod is UNBELIEVABLY slow. So in the end, I think it takes longer than it did before. And I'll bet the items expire this time, since I wasn't able to convert them to MP3s. Progress. Nothing like it.
My main Shuffle now contains the first chapter of a book called Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and an essay by Malcolm Gladwell. Another Shuffle, which I have renamed "AudioPad" has all 7 hours of Tunnel in the Sky, my favorite Heinlein juvenile. My iPhone has an E-book by Jack London. So now maybe I'll go to the gym, which is more or less what I was preparing to do when I started this project 3 hours ago.
In general, the new library website is easier to use than the old one, but some of the navigation is baffling. Do any of you library-savvy folks know how I can FIND the wishlist that I added all those things to???
