It's called the Playaway and it is appearing now at all Rodney Libraries.
The Playaway is "the simplest way to listen to an audio book on the go". The small MP3-type unit comes with the title already loaded and a battery to make it play. "Plug in your earphones and enjoy. No cassettes or CD's. No downloads. Thre's nothing left to do but listen."
You can bookmark your favourite sections, adjust the speed of the narrators voice and it even remembers where you stopped. The Playaway works with most headphones, speakers and car adaptors, but we have a supply of headphones for sale at the Library for $2 if you don't have a set of your own.
We have been trialling Playaway's through our Orewa Library and they have proved exceedingly popular. Since they arrived here at Warkworth on Monday, they have been rocketing out the door. We have some fantastic titles and authors:
- The classics such as Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy
- Biographies
- Thrillers and mysteries with authors such as Ruth Rendell and John Grisham
- History from swashbuckling Alexander Kent to the romance of Charlotte Bingham
- Science fiction including Dr Who and Ray Bradbury
- The most popular authors of today such as Jodi Picoult, Steig Larsson and Harlen Coben
- Children's and young adult titles including The Host (Stephenie Meyer), Jacqueline Wilson and Eion Colfer.
To find out what titles we have and try them for yourself, head down to your local Library and look for the Playaway either on a special display or shelved with our audio book collection. Or to reserve yourself a copy, check out the list on our Library catalogue here.
So in summary - the Playaway is
- pre-loaded
- digitable
- portable
- simple
- and best of all, FREE!
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