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,
>
>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