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Date: | Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:29:29 -0600 |
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Sharon,
They break the books out in sections so you aren't downloading the entire
book at once. It is amazing to me though how such digital downloading would
be accused of taking a long time, yet ordering a book and waiting for the
tapes to get here in a week or two or longer presumably isn't? Seems to me
we're talking minutes on a computer, and weeks on snail mail. I'm not sure
the perspective there. Unless it is a dial up connection yeah, no one
really ought do that, dial up doesn't handle any downloads well, but even
at that, it is still pretty instantaneous than compared to waiting for
tapes to get here. One can download a book and then go wash floors or
something and it will be there when you are done type thing.
Brad
At 09:00 PM 7/27/2007, you wrote:
>Brad,
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>I don't know all the technicalities of this concept, but I was told by
>someone in the digital area of my state Commission for Libraries that
>downloading NLS books isn't popular with patrons, as they take a long
>time. Are you talking about something a little different?
>
>Sharon
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