Dan Greene

U32 Library Media Specialist....and audio geek


What a difference a year has made! There are many new devices that will play audio-books, or let you read them on a tablet. There is even a new iPad.


It used to be fairly simple, books came in one format. Bound, on paper. Sometimes the covers were hard, sometimes soft. Maybe they were available in different print sizes, but that's pretty much it. Not anymore. Books are available in a wide variety of formats. They can be read, listened to and even watched. If this isn't enough, there are many ways to do each of these.


If you need to be persuaded that audiobooks have value, click on the articles below:


Hear and now: Connecting Outstanding audiobooks to library and classroom instruction.


My Secret Stash of Books on Tape


The Benefits of Audiobooks for children

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

What is DRM? and What is MP3? and How does MP3 work?

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices...
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of data compression. (approx. 1/12 the size of a traditional wave format).  It is the  standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players. MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group as part of its MPEG-1 standard. The group was formed by several teams of engineers in 1991.
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