The South Huntington Public Library, on New York’s Long Island, has adopted a new method for lending out audio books: putting them on portable MP3 players. The library has purchased 10 iPod Shuffles—miniature devices that can hold at least one book at a time—and is renting them out, along with adapters for playing the books through car stereos.
The project might sound like an expensive indulgence, but librarians say they’re actually saving money because MP3 files cost considerably less than the same titles would on CD.
