Sharon,

That is true, and yet nonetheless dial up, downloading a few mbs at a time 
as Overdrive books do, is still faster than snail mail. Like I say one can 
hop on line, download a book while you are shopping or cleaning or reading 
or whatever and when it is done, it is done. I'd not suggest waiting for it 
to be done. It is doable. The books they talked about on the training said 
a book is broken up in lots of parts to allow it to be piece mealed in 
downloads. Besides, not everyone has time to read a whole book in a 
week,  which is the time allowed before the license runs out and you can't 
open it. So you download a section, listen to it, then download another 
section and so on. DSL now days is not as expensive as it use to be and 
some are not much more than dial up use to be. When I started I was paying 
close to $20 for dial up, I get DSL now for $28 a month, more than well 
worth the extra 8 or 10 bucks.

Brad

At 05:27 PM 7/28/2007, you wrote:
>Yeah Brad, I agree that downloading is much faster then snail mail, but 
>maybe a lot of the patrons cannot afford anything higher than dial-up.
>
>Sharon