I can't always read with my eyes.

There are times when I just can't read with my eyes.

Driving in the car or hitting the gym are two times when reading with my eyes just gets in the way. I got hooked on reading with my ears years ago by subscribing to Audible. My subscription plan only covers 12 books a year, I can read that many in no time! When I run out there is a place I can turn to for more audio books and these are completely free. The only catch is you need a valid St. Louis County library card.

I logged into the St. Louis Country Library eMedia site and was presented with all the options above.

I clicked Hoopla just to see if they had any Ken Robinson books. Super pumped that they had four of his titles ready for me to download. While listening on my laptop would be fine it would not really work well in the gym or car. I also performed the same search on Overdrive yielding only one audio book that is also available on hoopla. Some of the above also provide you with music and movies.

I would highly recommend check out these app at some point in the near future. If you have never read an audio book, you are absolutely missing out.

Pretty sure that a ton of your kids would love to know they could be carrying around bunch of audio books and music completely free of charge.

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