Idaho Commission for Libraries

We've just finished selecting the 1500+ titles that will be distributed in digital format when the Talking Book Service transition begins next year. These titles will be available on cartridges and will play on the new digital players. It was a challenge to select 1500 titles from the more than 12,000 currently available in digital format, but we hit the major genres: westerns, romance, suspense, mystery, and bestsellers hard with additional titles from most other genres. With 50-75 new titles added each month, we should have a decent collection to start circulating on cartridges when the players are available in mid 2009.

In addition to the collection of digital cartridges, the complete digital database containing about 20,000 titles will be available to download titles that are not used as frequently as the cartridges.