Here's where I veer off a bit on technology. I like e-books if I'm looking up information and only need to read a few pages. If I'm going to read an entire book, I want to hold the entire book. Call me old fashioned.
Now...I LOVE audio books. I particularly enjoy audio books on a long car ride, while I'm cleaning house, and while riding my brand new exercise bike. It just makes the time fly. Pretty soon, I'll be starting a new job that's an hour away from my house and I predict I will get a lot of listening done.
I like Net Library e-books because they are more up to date and I like the user interface. Gutenberg is better for the out of copyright material. But what I really liked about PG is the audio files. I looked up a favorite poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and there are several of her poems as audio files. These would be great for someone studying poetry in an English class. This way that can hear the inflections of the reader's voice and the little nuances that come out when you read poetry aloud rather than reading silently.
Just be sure to pick the ones that are human read...the computer read ones...well...not so up on the voice inflections.
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