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[quote=Anonymous]You mention two options. There is also a third - download a text/epub book and use something like Calibre or a Text to Speech Engine to read the book to you on your trip.

More of the popular books may still have waiting lists but this is also doable. Also, if you go to https://www.gutenberg.org/ (project Gutenberg) you can get some classics (I like Treasure Island and Count of Monte Cristo) in various formats.

As far as "practical issues" with downloading books from libraries, there are really none. Its a lot more convenient than the old method of audio books on cassette or CD that were hours and hours of audio on multiple disks or tapes that required you to change it every few hours. With the simple download and let the Overdrive/Libby app change files for you, its a popular free option. So with popular books you have two strikes against you vs the other fact that few people read.

So there will be waiting lists for new releases and popular books. You have the options of adding yourself to the waiting list, looking for other books or trying to look in other libraries.

For some of the books that I have been really wanting to read (say book 3 in a 4 or 5 book series), I wound up doing the option I mentioned above where I downloaded the text of the book and just listened to the TTS instead of the audiobook. It takes some getting used to but it gets me through the book. [/quote]

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